Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Several space missions have flown by asteroids before and gotten a peek at their compositions, but bringing a sample back to Earth ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tim McCoy, right, and Cari Corrigan, meteorite researchers at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, look at images ...

Material collected from asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft contains 14 of the 20 amino acids used in Earth ...

A new image of an asteroid, referred to as a “quasi-moon,” has been released ...

An astronomer has revealed that groundbreaking scientific findings from an asteroid could fundamentally alter our understanding of 'life as we know it'. Space communications specialist Alexandra Doten ...

A chunk of rock collected from the asteroid Ryugu contains bacteria—but, unfortunately, it's not evidence of alien life. Reading time 2 minutes Researchers found evidence of microbial life in what ...

Samples taken from the space-returned piece of asteroid Ryugu were collected and prepared under strict anti-contamination controls. Inside the cleanest of clean rooms, a tiny particle was collected ...

TL;DR: NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe delivered samples from asteroid Bennu in 2023. Researchers have since analyzed these samples to study their contents. Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio.

Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 has a close encounter with a peanut-shaped asteroid, Torifune. Credit: JAXA / The University of ...

A flyby conducted by the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 uncovered the asteroid's strange shape. Data gathered by the probe ...

China's Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission is set to launch this month, May 2025, en route to the asteroid Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3). The country could join the United States and Japan, whose space ...