Pristine samples of asteroid Bennu have revealed something entirely unexpected — not only does the asteroid contain the chemical building blocks of life, but it also originated from an ancient ...

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

The net capture dynamics, comprising the net and nonlinear contact dynamics models, are constructed for the asteroid mission. The sliding mode control is applied for designing the controllers of the ...

After a suspected meteor fell in metro Atlanta on Thursday afternoon, meteorite hunters are searching for fragments. But how do you know if you found a meteorite or just a rock?

A sample from the asteroid Bennu, the subject of the 2016 OSIRIS-REx mission, and a “near-Earth asteroid,” has arrived at the Field Museum. Uncontaminated by the Earth’s atmosphere, this ...

Recently two new observatories — NASA's SPHEREx and the Vera C Rubin Observatory — released their first images.

The spacecraft grabbed so much of the asteroid Bennu, its sample-collection device got jammed. Now the material is safe and sound. A series of images from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the ...

A fireball spotted across the South may be a meteorite, officials said. See the flash in the sky that was captured by dashcams.

Channel 2’s Audrey Washington caught up with some meteorite hunters in Henry County who think they might have found something. See what they found, LIVE on Channel 2 Action News at 4:00 p.m.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth impact has now been ruled out, the asteroid's story continues.