This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...

Pat Parris explores 50 years of the Flandrau Science Center & Planetarium, and tells us what makes it Absolutely Arizona.

Lockheed Martin has been part of all NASA Mars missions to date and it has been part of every single sample return mission to ...

A University of Tokyo team achieved the feat with an AI-based rock identification tool that was fed information on rocks on ...

Tantalizing clues in 4-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu samples could reveal particular molecular formations that some ...

NASA Planetary Scientist Noah Petro dishes on what it took plan the impressive touch-and-go return mission, why much of the ...

A team of scientists just discovered the longest organic molecules yet seen on Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun and and a ...

"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our solar system." ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx set out to collect a pristine sample from asteroid Bennu, a cosmic time capsule that may hold clues to the origins of life in our solar system. But the journey was anything but easy.

The family originated in the inner main belt not very far from the source regions of near-Earth asteroids (101955) Bennu and (162173) Ryugu, recently visited respectively by NASA's OSIRIS-REx and ...

These deformations, associated with three distinct shapes—spherical, ... In 2023, the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission returned a sample of dust and rocks collected on the near-Earth asteroid Bennu.

Then you look closer and notice the detail: how the ribs are built at different lengths to create a rib "cage," how the dark-colored bricks create the illusion of shadow and throw the light ...