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Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a tiny chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but for now, you can watch it fly harmlessly through space in a short time-lapse video captured by the NASA-funded ATLAS telescope.

Bennu samples also indicate it was part of an ancient water world

In samples NASA brought back from the asteroid Bennu, scientists have discovered of organic compounds, including key building blocks of life like amino acids.

NASA and its partners have published the first wave of information about the samples collected in the OSIRIS-REx mission.

NASA will brief media at 11 a.m. EST Wednesday, Jan. 29, to provide an update on science results from NASA's OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation,

When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors and landslides that totally change the asteroid's surface.

As part of an asteroid sample exchange, NASA has transferred to JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) a portion of the asteroid Bennu sample collected by

Scientists have analyzed images of the twin asteroids Didymos and Dimorphous taken by NASA's DART mission before it impacted the smaller space rock...

OSIRIS-APEX emerged unscathed from its first of six close brushes with the sun, thanks to some clever engineering.

From the search for habitable worlds beyond our solar system to Earth science missions closer to home, NASA shared its goals for the next decades of

Dante Lauretta, the planetary scientist who led the OSIRIS-REx mission to retrieve a handful of space dust, discusses his next final frontier.

Science News: NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission on asteroid Bennu unveils crucial findings, including the presence of carbon and water, essential for life. The mission exce

New insights into why animals play, how to hunt an asteroid, and more books out now

NASA finally has counted up all the asteroid samples returned by a spacecraft last fall

NASA finally has counted up all the asteroid samples returned by a spacecraft last fall — and it's double the rubble return goal. Officials reported...

A newly discovered asteroid has passed safely between the Earth and moon during a very close encounter this week.

Scientists are working hard to analyze samples of the potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu, with early results suggesting it may even be a chunk of an ancient water world.

Space.com caught up with two leading scientists now engaged in extracting and analyzing samples of asteroid Bennu retrieved by NASA's OSIRIS-Rex mission.

NASA finally unlocks long-sought asteroid sample, with some decent-sized rocks

Comet Wild 2 formed 4.5 billion years ago and is a relic of the birth of the solar system. In 2006, NASA brought pieces of it down to Earth.