NASA's Lucy probe will zip past the asteroid Donaldjohanson, testing its science instruments on the space rock.

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Scientists have found special chemical compounds necessary for the existence of life in samples collected from asteroid Bennu ...

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Famed Queen guitarist and citizen astronomer Brian May collaborated with NASA's asteroid mission OSIRIS-REx, helping ...

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NASA’s Lucy mission is about to fly past asteroid Donaldjohanson, a strange, elongated rock in the main belt. While this ...

A planetary scientist explains new research explaining the differing compositions between space rocks that hit Earth and are ...

Learn about new evidence that suggests life on Earth may have started with the help of molecules that were delivered by ...