The proposed national US budget for 2026 contains a few nasty surprises for NASA, and some serious disappointments—among them ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Two NASA employees are being honored as part of the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals, also known as the Sammies, recognizing outstanding federal employees who are addressing many of our ...

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 ...

The trajectories of objects often feature anomalies that can be useful in discovering new physics.” These are the words of Yu ...

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

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

Despite the slightly higher chance of impact, the risks from Bennu shouldn’t keep anyone awake at night. There’s more than a 99.9 percent chance that Bennu will not hit Earth in the next three ...

The Field Museum is the new temporary home to a tiny piece of pristine asteroid. The fragment of the asteroid Bennu, on loan from NASA, won't be on display for visitors, but will give scientists the ...