Asteroid 101955 Bennu is roughly 500 meters across, close to the height of the Empire State Building measured from base to ...
Famed Queen guitarist and citizen astronomer Brian May collaborated with NASA's asteroid mission OSIRIS-REx, helping scientists find a suitable landing spot on the space rock that turned out to be ...
NASA's so-called "doomsday asteroid" Apophis - named after the ancient Egyptian god of chaos - is set to pass Earth closer ...
Nitrogen is a key ingredient in the biomolecules that form the building blocks of life. Yet as an unbonded gas, it is far ...
Japan's MMX mission aims to uncover Phobos' origins by returning samples from Mars' moon, potentially reshaping solar system ...
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman led a return visit to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) on Sept. 2 as part of ...
NASA's Interworld Slingshot Resource Surveys aims to use Raman spectroscopy from orbit, enabling efficient mineral scouting ...
Is our planetary defense lousy? The imminent Earth Impactor CERNQ52 crashed near Australia yesterday, and NASA explained why ...
In a new Nature Communications study, researchers developed a universal scaling framework for the strength of granular ...
The Apophis asteroid, dubbed the 'God of Chaos', is set to pass closer to Earth than satellites in geosynchronous orbit on ...
Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy has captured NASA’s newly launched Roman Space Telescope moving across the night sky, ...
Is asteroid Apophis ever going to hit Earth? For a while, people had reason to worry. When astronomers first spotted it back in 2004, their early calculations showed a small, but ...