In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...

NASA's asteroid samples contain organic compounds and minerals that may have seeded early Earth with life's building blocks.

Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar system through some of the most well-preserved asteroid samples ever collected, potentially ...

When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...