Researchers believe this 4.6-billion-year-old piece of rock could reveal compounds present at the beginning of the solar ...

The asteroid, about a third of a mile wide at its equator, poses no immediate threat to our planet. But hundreds of years from now, there is a small chance that Bennu could slam into Earth.

One proposed way of examining if such a force could exist is by closely monitoring asteroid trajectories, and few near-Earth ...

Scientists at the Field Museum can now get a glimpse of 4.5 billion years into the past. This is because the museum is the new temporary home to a tiny piece of a pristine asteroid. The little black ...

America’s national parks are more than just hiking trails — they’re home to some of the most stunning landmarks on Earth.

The trajectories of objects often feature anomalies that can be useful in discovering new physics.” These are the words of Yu-Dai Tsai, first author of a recent paper published in Nature ...

It's time for our annual listener question show, where we find answers to your burning science questions like: is the ...

NASA's Worm logo is displayed in front of the agency's headquarters in Washington.Credit: NASA Two NASA employees are being honored as part of the ...

and found molecules containing the ingredients for life in samples from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and ...

Two NASA employees are being honored as part of the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals, also known as the Sammies, ...

Leveraging satellite imagery, Earth observation is a prime example of where the geospatial field intersects with the space ...

where he characterizes near-Earth asteroids for impact hazards and mitigation. He was recently in the news for coordinating a national-scale drill to mitigate an asteroid threat, and, this past ...