The near-Earth asteroid Bennu contains stardust that is older than the solar system and clues about its violent history, ...

In 2020, the Hayabusa2 uncrewed spacecraft successfully returned small fragments from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu, ...

Planetary defence has become a critical global effort, uniting space agencies like NASA, JAXA, ESA, and ISRO to detect, track ...

New analyses of the samples taken from asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx have revealed new insights into its origin – and The University of Manchester’s scientists have played a key role.A series of ...

Asteroid Bennu—the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample return mission, led by the University of Arizona—is a mixture of ...

Japan will join a European project to observe the Apophis asteroid when it passes close to the Earth by providing the H3 ...

New data from the James Webb telescope suggests that Bennu and Ryugu — two asteroids recently visited by sample-return ...

Scientists from the Southwest Research Institute have found strong evidence that near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu share a common origin with Polana, a much larger asteroid in the main belt. By ...

Residents of southern Japan were treated to a spectacular celestial display when a brilliant fireball streaked across the sky late Monday night. The dazzling sight was captured on dashcam footage by a ...

Japan plans to join a European Space Agency mission to observe an asteroid set for a close flyby of Earth in 2029, a source ...

A large fireball made night into day for a split second across western Japan. The Washington Post said it was believed to ...