In the coming years, an unprecedented number of people will leave planet Earth—but it’s becoming increasingly clear that deep ...

The solar sail for NASA’s Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) Scout, a robotic reconnaissance mission designed to fly ... above the buttons of his fitted shirt. While careful to credit the decades of ...

Have you ever felt embarrassed by the need to carry a towel, or even a fresh shirt ... four years in space, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx craft made a brief landing on the asteroid Bennu to collect samples ...

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino ...

Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five ...

NASA's groundbreaking mission to an asteroid A mission called OSIRIS-REx landed on an asteroid named Bennu in 2020, jammed its arm into the rock's surface, and scooped up a heaping sample of grit ...

DART and Hera: Missions to test, study asteroid-obliterating tech The ongoing scientific preparation is not just about observation. In September 2022, NASA demonstrated that it was possible to ...

The sample analysis detected 14 out of the 20 amino acids used by life on Earth to create proteins, as well as all five nucleobases essential ...

The discovery supports the theory that asteroids seeded life on Earth.

By April this year, scientists will start to decide whether to send a mission to intercept an asteroid that may hit Earth in ...