NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

The list of amazing features to talk about here is seriously extensive, and one quick look at this thing makes it perfectly ...

Asteroids are usually grouped into three main types based on what they are made of: C-type, S-type and M-type.

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Because Bennu is less than a half-mile wide, its gravitational tug is very weak. It is the smallest object any spacecraft has ever orbited, making navigation a challenge.

RAW color commentator Pat McAfee is currently on hiatus from calling the show and has been missing for the past three weeks.

Ultimately, you chose a site called Nightingale in a northern crater of Bennu—why? I was hoping that the team would come to a uniform consensus—unanimous—and that it would be overwhelmingly obvious ...

An asteroid believed to be up to 700metres wide will pass relatively close to Earth within days, and is being tracked by NASA ...

KinetX Aerospace, Inc., the first private company to provide interplanetary navigation for NASA, has been honored with three ...

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Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears to be a stony, non-metallic type of asteroid known as an ordinary ...