The potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu probably won't hit Earth. But this study shows the damage a space rock of its size ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is closely monitoring asteroid 2025 CA2, which is set to pass by Earth on 18 February ...

Scientists have discovered traces of organic compounds in asteroid samples brought back by NASA, a finding that could suggest ...

Dust and other debris would rise into the atmosphere on Bennu striking Earth, blocking out the Sun and cooling the planet to ...

Typically, the trajectory of a tail-sitter is generated separately for vertical and level flights. This limits the tail-sitter's ability to move in a 3-dimensional airspace and makes it difficult to ...

NASA's robotic OSIRIS-REx spacecraft journeyed to Bennu and in 2020 collected ... planetary defense mission by using its robotic DART spacecraft to change the trajectory of the asteroid Dimorphos, ...

NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces) of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert in 2023 before swooping off ...

Jason Dworkin, a project scientist with OSIRIS-REx at Nasa, described the findings as adding ... At the time, Apophis was thought to be on a trajectory toward Earth. After additional assessments, ...

The sample was collected from Bennu in October 2020 by a NASA mission called OSIRIS-REx, or Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security-Regolith Explorer. It marked the ...

Jason Dworkin, a project scientist with OSIRIS-REx at Nasa, described the findings ... At the time, Apophis was thought to be on a trajectory toward Earth. After additional assessments ...

It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but the wait is proving to be worth it. A new study published January 29 in ...