Explore a tiny asteroid sample's cosmic secrets and its potential impact on our understanding of the universe.

A tiny piece of the space rock made its public debut at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, as scientists study the rest of the sample ...

NASA has provided asteroid Bennu samples to researchers at the Natural History Museum in London, for an in-depth analysis ...

The first asteroid sample collected in space and brought to Earth by the United States will be unveiled at NASA’s Johnson ...

The unremarkable black dust-like sample from asteroid Bennu could help shed light on some of the biggest questions about how ...

Is the key to life on Earth contained within a teaspoon of black asteroid dust that's arrived in London? Scientists at the ...

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Data from other studies on asteroids, combined with the new thermal models of Phaethon, led the researchers to believe that ...

The sample was scooped up from the surface of 500m-wide asteroid Bennu in 2020 by Nasa's Osiris-Rex spacecraft, and then ...

A tiny fragment from the most dangerous asteroid in the solar system has arrived in the U.K. — and scientists think it could teach us about the origins of life on Earth. The fragment — a ...

OSIRIS-APEX (the spacecraft formerly known as OSIRIS-REx) is about to face its first test in its extended mission to asteroid ...

An ambitious schedule is falling prey to delays in new systems under development by private contractors including SpaceX and ...