In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.

Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar system through some of the most well-preserved asteroid samples ever collected, potentially ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...

Scientists say that a newly discovered space-rock has a chance of colliding with our planet in less than 10 years ...

Scientists have discovered ancient water, exotic salts, and the building blocks of life in asteroid Bennu, supporting the theory that asteroids may have seeded life on Earth ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces) of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu ...

Daksh Malik, a 14-year-old from Noida, discovers an asteroid and gets a chance to name it after NASA's verification.

Daksh Malik's school offered him a chance to join the International Asteroid Discovery Programme, which allowed participants ...

Daksh joins an elite group in India, alongside just five other students who have reported discovering an asteroid.

Daksh Malik, who studies in class 9, identified an asteroid in space. Nasa confirmed and recognised the asteroid and ...

Daksh Malik, a class 9 student from Shiv Nadar School, participated in a Nasa project, during which he discovered the asteroid between Mars and Jupiter's asteroid belt.