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

The Field Museum is the new temporary home to a tiny piece of pristine asteroid. The fragment of the asteroid Bennu, on loan ...

A space rock the color of coal and no larger than a pebble you’d shake from a shoe just arrived at the Field Museum, where ...

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 ...

The Field Museum received a rare, pristine sample of asteroid Bennu from NASA — a "time capsule" from the early solar system, ...

The Field Museum is the new temporary home to a tiny piece of pristine asteroid. The fragment of the asteroid Bennu, on loan ...

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 ...

The 'city killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 may not be on a collision course with Earth anymore. But NASA has raised the odds of it ...

While fragments of asteroids reach Earth’s surface periodically ... NASA’s sample return mission to the asteroid Bennu, Osiris-Rex, pulled off the same feat in 2020. China’s space agency ...

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 ...

China embarked on Thursday on its first mission to retrieve samples from a nearby asteroid, with the nighttime launch of its Tianwen-2 spacecraft, set to make the fast-growing space power the third ...