An electron microscope image shows needle-like sodium carbonate crystals in the asteroid sample, each less than one/10th of the width of a human hair. The needles form a vein that cuts through the ...

An asteroid is headed towards the Earth - but it’s probably not time to panic just yet. In recent days, there has been increasing alarm about 2024 YR4, an asteroid that is on course to fly ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

An asteroid is headed towards the Earth - but it’s probably not time to panic just yet. In recent days, there has been increasing alarm about 2024 YR4, an asteroid that is on course to fly towards ...

Scientists theorized that the asteroid contained traces of water and organic molecules and that similar asteroids could have brought these materials to a primordial Earth. Bennu’s parent ...

An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth ... according to NASA and the European Space Agency. The space rock is formally named 2024 YR4. Scientists say the risk of it making contact with ...

Fragments of the asteroid Bennu, carefully collected and ferried to Earth by a robotic spacecraft, contain the building blocks for life, NASA announced today. NASA ‘fist bumps’ an asteroid to ...

jammed its arm into the rock's surface, and scooped up a heaping sample of grit and dust. It was NASA's first-ever score of fresh, unadulterated asteroid material. The mission sealed the Bennu ...

A NASA spacecraft brought samples from the asteroid Bennu back to Earth in 2023. The first in-depth analyses of that material ... locked up in clay minerals. The soil and rock from Bennu are ...