Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...

New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit ...

New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about ...

A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new study.

Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The ...

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

For the first time in known history, NASA's DART mission in 2022 was able to deflect an asteroid with a kinetic impactor, ...

NASA / Supplied So far, scientists have only seen a small fraction of the asteroid’s orbit, which every four years goes in a wildly oblong path from ... on the asteroid Bennu and returned ...

The asteroid — called 2024 YR4 — is orbiting on a path that will bring it close to Earth in 2032 ... For instance, NASA's robotic OSIRIS-REx spacecraft journeyed to an asteroid named Bennu and, in ...

EDDE can climb about 200 km/day and change orbit plane at 1.5°/day, even in polar orbit. No other electric vehicle can match these rates, much less sustain them for years. After catching and ...

Science correspondent Allan Blackman joins Kathryn to talk about what samples of the asteroid Bennu reveal about the building blocks of life on Earth. He'll also look at what's happening with the ...

The United States Space Force released a rare photo of its secretive X-37B space plane in orbit. The image, shared on X by the agency, is the first-ever image that has been shown to the public ...