Marina Barcenilla was studying the chemical makeup of interstellar bodies when she realized she could marry her two passions ...

In 1920, however, a farmer in the African nation of Namibia, then part of British-controlled South Africa, made an ...

China’s Tianwen-2 launched on a sample return mission to asteroid Kamo’oalewa, before heading out for a visit with the Comet ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how deep it went. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

The spacecraft will orbit the asteroid for more than a year doing science and selecting a site before collecting a pristine sample in a pogo-stick like motion. Safely there: University of Arizona ...

With the return of an Asteroid Bennu sample in 2023 as part of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, researchers from the University of Arizona have made significant discoveries toward understanding the ...

The effect of a “Bennu”-sized asteroid impact In this latest study ... The researchers admit that their model has some inherent limitations. For one, CESM2/WACCM6, like other modern climate models, is ...

The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists, with samples from the space rock showing weirder properties than they expected. These include extremely high nitrogen levels and improbably magnetic ...

I told her no, you’re at the point where you could be a role model yourself ... UA-led mission that has sent a spacecraft to the asteroid Bennu. It will arrive Dec. 3, 2018.

Overall, they write, a Bennu-type asteroid could lead to “severe environmental consequences,” reducing land photosynthesis by 36 percent and marine photosynthesis by 25 percent. That would in ...

Their model assumed that an impact would release several hundred ... Climatic and ecological responses to dust injections of 400 million tons from a Bennu-type asteroid impact. Spatial changes of ...