Scientists studying asteroids found that two seemingly unrelated types share a strange dusty coating of troilite. By using ...

Aliens may have been closer to Earth than first thought. New research from NASA reveals that Ceres, the dwarf planet in the ...

Experts from London’s Natural History Museum and University of Arizona say Bennu’s particles give a purer glimpse of our ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission, which delivered over 120 grams (4.2 ounces) of Bennu ’s soil to Earth in 2023, is the largest haul of ...

Asteroid Bennu—the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample return mission, led by the University of Arizona—is a mixture of ...

Some of the most basic building blocks of the solar system are missing from one of its most dangerous asteroids.

Scientists have analysed samples from the Bennu asteroid (pictured), which resembles the Death Star space station in the Star ...

Among the federal climate action measures recently slashed by Congress and the Trump administration were tax credits for home ...

A Harvard scientist has suggested that an interstellar object passing through the solar system might be a nuclear-powered alien spaceship. Most astronomers believe the object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, […] ...

Welcome to SolarBalls, featuring fun and educational space animations that help you learn about the solar system and the ...

Rowan University geology chair Harold Connolly, Jr., Ph.D., who serves as mission sample scientist for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx ...

NASA's spacecraft Osiris Rex briefly touched the surface of the asteroid Bennu, using a robotic arm to collect around 120g of ...