NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

This week we examine what U.S. Space Force officials and others have said about a satellite that recently exploded due to an ...

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 ...

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

An asteroid's orbit may reveal an invisible fifth force that could rewrite the rules of physics. Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid ...

Scientists have made a major breakthrough in understanding the origins of most meteorites that fall to Earth. A team of ...

From the discovery of gravity to the first mission to defend Earth from an asteroid, here are the most important physics ...

An international team has successfully demonstrated that 70% of all known meteorite falls originate from just three young asteroid families. These families were produced by three recent collisions ...

Until recently, the origin of almost all meteorites was unknown. A research team could now assign more than two thirds to ...

Researchers from Western University's Institute for Earth and Space Exploration have identified a way to produce edible ...

Two new studies show that the majority of meteorites originate from just one family of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter.