NASA Planetary Scientist Noah Petro dishes on what it took plan the impressive touch-and-go return mission, why much of the ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...

While the technology still needs significant work, a new analysis of meteorites points to valuable targets in the solar ...

“It’s all I ever wanted to do,” said Connolly, founding chair and professor in the Department of Geology within the School of Earth & Environment and a research associate in the Department of Earth ...

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Tiny grains of dust from asteroid Bennu are reshaping how scientists think life’s ingredients formed in space.

A UA-led telescope atop of Mount Graham has captured the first glimpse of an asteroid-bound spacecraft since its launch in September 2016. The Large Binocular Telescope Observatory, an international ...

NASA has unveiled photos of some of the asteroid rocks returned by the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission. NASA reveals asteroid sample NASA has unveiled photos of some of the asteroid rocks returned by the ...

How did life originate? Did it form on Earth or elsewhere in the solar system and was it seeded on Earth by impact of an asteroid? Will life eventually be wiped out by an asteroid? While we may never ...