In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 ...

Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar system through some of the most well-preserved asteroid samples ever collected, potentially ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...

Purdue professor along with a team of scientists analyze asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to give a better understanding of the past.

On Wednesday, an unprecedented memo from the International Asteroid Warning Network reached the United Nations Office for ...

NASA has found something on Uranus and Neptune. The ice giants of the solar system have long been enigmas for science.

When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...

Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, followed by Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Mercury orbits ...