asteroid, NASA and Earth

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...
NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.
Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water world, scientists reported Wednesday.
An asteroid with the power to unleash an explosion one hundred times greater than the atomic bomb has triggered global space ...
In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.
NASA and ESA are tracking asteroid 2024 YR4, which is about 328 feet wide and has a 1.2% chance of hitting Earth.