After a 500 million mile journey, a piece of the asteroid Bennu is now on display at the Smithsonian. But how did it get here? Ellyn Lapointe The Smithsonian is the first institution to display a ...

For the first time in U.S. history, samples from an asteroid in deep space that were captured by NASA fell to Earth and landed in the Utah desert on Sunday, ending a seven-year journey. The Osiris-Rex ...

The events of 2003 changed the direction of human space exploration — both in our timeline and that of the alternate history series "For All Mankind." The fourth season of the acclaimed drama, which ...

Analysis of the impact craters on Ryugu using the spacecraft Hayabusa 2’s remote sensing image data has illuminated the geological history of the Near-Earth asteroid. A research group led by Assistant ...

The Apophis asteroid, also called the “God of Chaos,” is expected to fly by Earth in April of 2029. But it is also projected to come closer than any asteroid in recorded history which has caused NASA ...

In 2020, the Hayabusa2 uncrewed spacecraft successfully returned small fragments from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu, providing the first pristine samples from a carbonaceous asteroid. Grains from ...

This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 images taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a range of 15 miles. As wide as The Eiffel Tower is tall, the asteroid Bennu is a potentially ...

We’ve all seen this happen in a science-fiction movie: our plucky heroes jump into their ramshackle spaceship and escape the bad guys by flying through the treacherous asteroid belt, where huge rocks ...

On a special episode (first released on October 2, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: Hollywood has long been enamored with end-of-the-world science fiction where asteroids play the leading role. But the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. No need to duck and cover. Asteroid 2024 RW1 is only a few feet in ...

Research by NASA and international scientists concludes giant asteroids, similar or larger than the one believed to have killed the dinosaurs, hit Earth billions of years ago with more frequency than ...