In 2016, NASA embarked on a new and unique mission: sending the Osiris-REx spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid Bennu to study the rocky space object and collect samples to return to ...

When NASA's DART spacecraft collided with an asteroid moon, no one could anticipate the profound changes that happened next.

A sample of material from the Bennu asteroid were brought back to Earth ... which was a surprise since that was not detected from orbit. The co-lead author of the study, Dante Lauretta, from ...

A "harmless" asteroid burned up Tuesday night above northern Siberia in Russia, creating a blazing fireball in the sky ...

HOPES of finding traces of alien life in the universe have been scuppered yet again. And this time on asteroid Ryugu, a space rock with an orbit that passes between Earth and Mars. The Japanese ...

Scientists figure out the orbit by calculating the ellipse which ... spent a couple of years hanging out next to the asteroid Bennu before dipping down to take a sample and return it to Earth.

Researchers meticulously tracked Bennu’s orbit using OSIRIS-REx spacecraft ... The study, published in Communications Physics, highlights asteroid tracking’s potential in uncovering dark ...

Apophis, approximately 340 meters in size, will pass within about 32,000 kilometers of Earth, closer than many satellites in orbit ... samples from the asteroid Bennu, OSIRIS-APEX will observe ...

Discovered in 1999, asteroid Bennu currently poses the greatest risk ... This asteroid hasn’t been seen since 2007, making its exact orbit unclear. There is a very low probability (1 in 10 ...