In May 2021, OSIRIS-REx began its journey back to Earth carrying dust from Bennu - a rubble-pile asteroid ... Marriott’s CEO spoke out about DEI. The next day, he had 40,000 emails from his ...

NASA’s Lucy mission is about to fly past asteroid Donaldjohanson, a strange, elongated rock in the main belt. While this ...

We have discovered that next step on a pathway to life ... brines similar to Earth’s salt flats remained. Bennu’s near-Earth orbit and carbon-rich makeup have made it a target of scientific ...

The Southwest Research Institute-led Lucy mission is preparing to survey the next target in its epic 4-billion-mile, 12-year, 11-asteroid tour. On April 20, 2025, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will fly past ...

As concerns over Earth’s limited resources continue to grow, some entrepreneurs are eagerly looking beyond our planet to establish the next big business venture ... samples containing organic ...

Just over the horizon, though, is the next big step into “cislunar ... which will fly to within a few miles of a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu, map it for several months and then get close ...

Every six years, an asteroid by the name of Bennu passes by Earth. Bennu is a small, loosely compacted ball of black rocks that formed nearly 4.6 billion years ago. Recently, scientists ...

A team from the University of Bern and the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS has developed a ...

The first was a flyby of the asteroid Dinkinesh on Nov. 1, 2023. This coming Sunday, Lucy will zip past her second target, ...

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet, which is roughly the size at which an asteroid could take out a city, or ...

A team of scientists just discovered the longest organic molecules yet seen on Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun and and a tantalizing venue for humankind’s search for life beyond Earth.

The search for Earth-like exoplanets—planets orbiting stars other than our sun—is a central topic in today's planetary research, because extraterrestrial life is most likely to be found there.