NASA’s OSIRIS-REx risked everything to touch a cosmic relic, Bennu offered no guarantees only danger and possibility, years ...

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Scientists have found special chemical compounds necessary for the existence of life in samples collected from asteroid Bennu. They believe the asteroid is a plant-like object rich in water and ...

As the asteroid lines up for a planetary flyby in 2029, space agencies are coordinating to conduct some groundbreaking ...

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To this day, remnants of the historic Apollo lunar missions exist on the moon; the OSIRIS-REx probe recently placed its robotic fingerprint on a clumpy asteroid called Bennu; multiple rovers have ...

A NASA spacecraft is traveling to the most mysterious asteroids in the solar system. On the way there, it snapped images of the curious, elongated asteroid dubbed "Donaldjohanson." On April 20 ...

Eric Niiler covers climate, ocean and Earth sciences for The Wall Street Journal from the Washington bureau. He is also following emerging applications of artificial intelligence in scientific and ...

Apr. 15, 2025 — First ever supercomputer simulations of Mars with a fully molten core could explain the Red Planet's unusual magnetic field. Billions of years ago, Mars had an active magnetic ...