In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 ...

Researchers offer their most comprehensive assessment to date of the history of water and organic compounds in a sample ...

In a triumph for NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission, new findings suggest that tiny bits of rock retrieved from the ...

Each year, cities, states and individuals spread millions of tons of road salt, which can leach into nearby freshwater ...

Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried ...

Asteroids are fragmentary remnants of pre-existing parent bodies from early in our Solar System’s history that have since ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth. CAPE CANAVERAL, ...