In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-metre-wide asteroid 320 ...

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...

Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

In 2029, one of the solar system's many asteroids will pass Earth close enough to see with the naked eye. But asteroid ...

The 12-km stretch of SPR, running from NH-8 to Ghata, has a 160-acre green belt, of which 60 acres have been encroached upon. GMDA earlier assured that the entire SPR will be encroachment-free by ...

Larger than 99 per cent of known space rocks, the asteroid ranks among the five largest celestial objects expected to come within 15 billion kilometres of Earth from now until 2200. Jake Foster, a ...

Asteroid 2025 AB, a 42-foot Near-Earth Asteroid, will pass just 95,200 miles from Earth, providing scientists a unique chance to study it closely. Falling under the Aten category, such asteroids ...

When you’re hurtling through space on the side of an asteroid, even a small misstep could cause serious damage — or even leave you stranded in space, drifting away from the rock itself.

"Asteroids are 'bits of a planet that didn't happen' that orbit the sun between Mars and Jupiter in the main asteroid belt. However, as they are relatively small, asteroids can be disturbed quite ...

Changes to planning rules may give a housing developer the chance to build 87 homes on current green belt land in what it describes as a “logical extension” of a village. Vistry Homes has ...