NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

"Can humanity enjoy the benefits of both asteroid and lunar mining without compromise, or do we have to choose one at the ...

So Bennu is clearly a fragment of a much larger world, and that world was sopping wet—maybe even an ocean-level environment. Bennu is also loaded with diverse organic material.

Asteroids are usually grouped into three main types based on what they are made of: C-type, S-type and M-type.

I call Bennu the “trickster asteroid” because it constantly surprised us and challenged us. The most surprising thing that directly impacted the mission is the rugged nature of Bennu’s surface.

At the Natural History Museum in London, Professor Sara Russell has been comparing the isotopic "fingerprint" of Earth's water with water found in the asteroid Bennu, captured and brought back by the ...

An asteroid believed to be up to 700metres wide will pass relatively close to Earth within days, and is being tracked by NASA ...

KinetX Aerospace, Inc., the first private company to provide interplanetary navigation for NASA, has been honored with three ...

Aerospace giant Lockheed Martin has proposed a new, relatively cheaper plan that could save NASA's Mars Sample Return (MSR) ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

What if you could visit another world, without ever leaving Earth? Out in the high desert of California, a place exists that ...