Data from the OSIRIS-REx mission to Bennu place a ceiling on the strength of a hypothetical fifth force that could explain dark matter’s origins.

Asteroid Bennu presented NASA’s OSIRIS-REx team with unexpected challenges, making it one of the trickiest missions to date. Discover how NASA’s mission planners adapted and what secrets Bennu has ...

An international team of scientists put the idea to the test thanks to mountains of data regarding OSIRIS-REx’s recent ...

Astronomers have started to investigate ways to identify anomalies amongst asteroids that could revolutionise current ...

Researchers meticulously tracked Bennu’s orbit using OSIRIS-REx spacecraft data ... The study, published in Communications ...

A research team used Bennu's tracking data to investigate the potential existence of a fifth fundamental force in the ...

Apophis is a peanut-shaped space rock spanning 1,230-foot (375 meters) across comparable to that of the Eiffel Tower. At this ...

Scientists have revealed images of a second massive asteroid impact called Nadir Crater buried 300 meters under the ocean ...

The asteroid families produced by older collisions ... it appears that the asteroids Ryugu and Bennu, recently sampled by the ...

The Nadir crater is the impact site of the second asteroid, liquifying the rock and launching a tsunami into the Atlantic ...

The OSIRIS-REx project made history last year as the first U.S. mission to bring back an asteroid sample from space—and with ...

The European Space Agency has taken the first big steps toward rendezvousing with the infamous asteroid Apophis during its ...