A fascinating glimpse into how a solar system like our own is born has been revealed with the detection of planet-forming ...

A new investigation into old Kepler data has revealed that a planetary system once thought to house zero planets actually has ...

For only the third time in history, astronomers have detected a new interstellar visitor — an object from another star — blitzing into our solar system.

The object gained an official name, C/2025 N1 or 3I/ATLAS, on Wednesday. Moving at a record-setting speed for an interstellar ...

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The mission marked NASA's first attempt to land on an asteroid and return a sample of one of these curious bodies back to Earth. Bennu orbits the Sun every 436.6 days.

Bennu has an orbit that intersects with Earth’s own orbital path, so a return trip is less fuel-intensive than it might be from other asteroids within our reach.

Context A 2021 NASA study did indeed determine the probability of Bennu, a large asteroid heavily studied that year, coming into contact with Earth by the year 2300. The report said the likelihood ...

NASA today shared its long-awaited analysis of samples collected from an ancient rock which could crash into Earth in 150 years. The space agency sent a probe to the 1,250-foot asteroid Bennu in ...

Sept. 24 (UPI) -- NASA has recovered a 250-gram dust sample from the Bennu asteroid on Sunday, marking the first sample return of its kind in America, the agency says.

Bennu is also expected to pass closer to Earth than the moon in 2135 and if it does, our planet's gravitational pull could put it on the path to striking Earth on September 24, 2182.

Asteroid Bennu is the space rock with the highest known probability of hitting Earth in the next 200 years. NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission will help us protect ourselves.