The document builds on the academies' decadal survey, outlining recommended missions for NASA's next New Frontiers program.

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 ...

No company has ever achieved what asteroid mining startup AstroForge is about to set out to do. Success is anything but ...

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 ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino acids, nucleobases, and minerals known as evaporites—all elements of life’s ...

Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. While the odds of Bennu impacting Earth may sound alarming, they're not entirely unexpected ...

The key to the new discovery was the pristine condition of the samples. Many of the salts present degrade quickly when exposed to the atmosphere. However, the samples collected on the OSIRIS-REx ...