What do you think of when it comes to extra terrestrial life? Most popular sci-fi books and TV shows suggest humanoid beings could live on other planets. But when astronomers are searching for ...

OSIRIS-REx brought back samples from Bennu, while Hayabusa2 visited Ryugu. Both missions targeted dark, carbon-rich asteroids known to contain water-bearing minerals. These untouched samples allow ...

When asteroid 2024 YR4 first revealed itself to humans on 27 December 2024, it seemed to have just shown up out of nowhere. An entire asteroid doesn't just materialize out of nothing, though, and now ...

The photos of asteroid Ryugu were taken by Japan's Hayabusa2 unmanned asteroid probe, while those of asteroid Bennu were taken by the U.S. probe Osiris-Rex. The findings were published Monday in ...

Every six years, an asteroid by the name of Bennu passes by Earth. Bennu is a small, loosely compacted ball of black rocks that formed nearly 4.6 billion years ago. Recently, scientists ...

Roger Varian talks Graham Clark through some of his big hopes for the new Flat season. Roger Varian expects this season to be one of ‘rebuilding’, however his place among Flat racing’s upper ...

The US OSIRIS-REx mission (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security–Regolith Explorer) collected dust and rocks from asteroid Bennu and returned them to Earth in 2023.

One of Friendship’s employees, Bennu Ekinci, was the first. Ekinci chose the classic red and has been in love with it so far. The logo, which means “House of Friendship,” is originally in ...

April 3 (UPI) --NASA said that an asteroid previously believed to be destined for Earth is the size of a 10-story building and is now more likely to make impact with the moon. Designated as near ...