Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

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

Last fall, the scientific community went into a minor frenzy. A hunk of interstellar material had been sucked into the ...

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It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it flew past Earth, which was then recovered in the desert of the U.S. state of ...

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The researchers believe that the ammonia-enriched ice melted inside the large parent asteroid body, estimated to be ... first half billion years of our solar system history that were wiped out ...

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It took two years for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it ... s protoplanetary parent body more than four billion years ago ...

Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes ...