"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

Fortunately, thanks to the Earth's atmosphere acting as a natural shield, instead of crash landing on the ground ... collected dust and rocks from asteroid Bennu and returned them to Earth ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment ... The president’s Inaugural Address linked landing on the Red Planet with Manifest Destiny ...

Now scientists reveal they used kilometers of fiber optics to analyze shockwaves from a NASA spacecraft returning to Earth, ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar ...

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

New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit ...

Trump seeks to remove judge who questioned deportation of Venezuelans The U.S. Justice Department on Monday sought to remove a judge who ordered the Trump administration to explain whether it ...

Should Andrews decide to continue his NFL career for a 10th season, here are a few landing spots for the veteran center. The Texans had significant offensive line issues in 2024, allowing the ...

Photo Credit: Pixabay Among these menacing asteroids are Asteroid Bennu, Asteroid 29075 (1950 DA), Asteroid 2023 TL4, Asteroid 2007 FT3 and Asteroid 1979 XB. Photo Credit: NASA The fact that humanity ...

SpaceX founder Elon Musk said Saturday its massive Starship rocket would leave for Mars at the end of 2026 with Tesla humanoid robot Optimus onboard, adding that human landings could follow "as ...