NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...

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

A team of scientists just discovered the longest organic molecules yet seen on Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun and and a ...

Seeing the invisible, that’s what a small group of scientists at Los Alamos National Labs are trying to do with data recovered from a near-Earth asteroid and ...

Smithsonian and NASA scientists set out to collect an asteroid sample that may hold clues to the origins of life in our solar ...

Learn about the projects that hope to acquire rare metals from space by mining asteroids, creating a budding industry with ...

"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our ...

Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.

Donaldjohanson formed about 150 million years ago when a much larger asteroid broke apart. Since then, its orbit and spin ...

Bennu and Ryugu are two asteroids that spacecraft have sampled in previous missions. NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission collected samples from Bennu, and the Hayabusa2 asteroid-sampling spacecraft from the ...

In this image taken from video released by NASA, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft touches the surface of asteroid Bennu on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020. (NASA via AP) Read full article: US agency kills ...

As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes awry, Josh Sims looks at how close we really are to extracting rare ...