The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...

Two stories under the Physics Building, the particle accelerator in Purdue's PRIME Labs produces data that researchers have ...

Bennu was the target for NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sampling mission, which touched down briefly on the space rock in October 2020 to gather over 4 ounces of material, and then brought that sample ...

"Depending on the collision parameters, an impact between a medium-sized asteroid and Earth could cause regional to large-scale devastation," wrote Timmermann and his colleague Lan Dai in their study.

New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking ...

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with Earth, a study has ...

NASA has detected a 67-foot asteroid traveling at 16,490 mph set to fly by Earth on February 18, 2025. Despite its alarming ...

New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking ...

Dust and other debris would rise into the atmosphere on Bennu striking Earth, blocking out the Sun and cooling the planet to devastating effect.

US startup Karman+ has raised $20m in seed funding to further its mission of mining space resources from asteroids ...

Why Trust Us? Two exciting new studies detail the life-supporting contents of a 4.3-ounce sample of the asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023 ...