When the Bennu capsule returned to Earth scientists expected fragments of ancient rock What they found instead offered new clues about how planets form and how life may have begun in the early solar ...

Abstract: Predictively synthesizing high-quality, close-range asteroid surface views from distant optical remote sensing imagery is critical for mission planning and landing-site selection in asteroid ...

The asteroid belt is found orbiting between Mars and Jupiter and is a vast collection of rocks that is thought to be a planet that never formed. When our Solar System formed 4.6 b ...

National Coffee Day on Sept. 29 is the perfect excuse to trade your home desk for a latte and some Wi-Fi — but not every café is built for getting work done. Luckily, Austin has plenty that nail the ...

We’ve all seen this happen in a science-fiction movie: our plucky heroes jump into their ramshackle spaceship and escape the bad guys by flying through the treacherous asteroid belt, where huge rocks ...

The small chunk of rock could be telling us that many of the moon’s largest impacts happened over 4.25 billion years ago. An unassuming rock collected from the surface of the moon over 50 years ago by ...

In 2023, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft returned with a capsule containing a sample of Bennu, an ancient asteroid formed the outer part of our solar system. The asteroid has since been analyzed by lab ...

The names of human ancestors are now on an asteroid map. The geological features of an oddly shaped asteroid visited by NASA's Lucy spacecraft now have official names, and like the mission's moniker, ...

The potential 'city killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 has a small chance of hitting the moon in 2032. In a new paper, scientists probe the logistics of destroying it — possibly with nuclear weapons — before ...