Queen guitarist and astrophysicist Brian May is about to release a book of 3D photographs of the near-Earth asteroid Bennu based on images gathered by NASA's OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft, which snagged ...

A massive crater hidden beneath the Atlantic seafloor has been confirmed as the result of an asteroid strike from 66 million ...

Arizona’s top man on NASA’s asteroid sampling mission has teamed up with actual rock ’n’ roll royalty to write the book on Bennu. Set for release on Thursday, “Bennu 3-D: Anatomy of an Asteroid” uses ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft brought back samples from the asteroid Bennu and, in a livestream earlier today, NASA scientists showed us what it found hanging out in the great vastness of the cosmos.

Humanity has collected samples from three asteroids: the stony type, Itokawa, and the carbonaceous Ryugu and Bennu. Carbonaceous asteroids are the largest class, so it wouldn’t be too surprising that ...