The asteroid Bennu has been at the centre of scientific discussions recently, especially after researchers analysed surface samples ... around what the space rock can reveal about the origins ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

A spacecraft's sample return capsule was detected entering the Earth's atmosphere using acoustic sensors by a team of ...

Experiments suggest that processes in the interior of the moon could keep it swathed in an atmosphere that should otherwise ...

Craters on the surface may hint at hidden ... essentially collections of rocks held together loosely by gravity, such as the asteroid Bennu that was visited by NASA’s ORISIS-REx spacecraft.

There are 10 major NASA facilities, including the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Johnson Space Center in Houston. October 4, 1957 - The Soviets launch Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial ...

Sciencecategory· January 29, 2025 Building blocks of life found in samples from asteroid Bennu Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical ...

Don’t blame astronomers for the odds that an asteroid will strike Earth in 2032. The likelihood has gone from 3.1 per cent to less than 1 per cent.

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu ... a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface.