The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists, with samples from the space rock showing weirder properties than they expected. These include extremely high nitrogen levels and improbably magnetic ...

The Trump administration in court filings has for the first time acknowledged that it fired nearly 25,000 recently hired workers, and said agencies were working to bring all of them back after a ...

Judge warns of consequences if Trump administration violated deportation order The Trump administration could face consequences if it violated a judge's order temporarily blocking the deportation ...

NASA scientists announced in January that 14 amino acids, along with all five nucleotide bases in RNA and DNA, had been found in the asteroid Bennu. Given that extraterrestrial objects routinely ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission successfully touched down on asteroid Bennu when it was 207 million miles away from Earth and brought back rock and dust samples. Several countries have developed the ...

Astronomers have had a rare glimpse into the heart of the Milky Way thanks to an errant star expelled from the galactic centre. At the middle of our galaxy is a supermassive black hole, closely ...

For the first time since 2022, skywatchers across North and South America will have a chance to glimpse the moon turn a rusty red during a total lunar eclipse, in a phenomenon nicknamed the ...

GRAND FORKS, ND — Astronomers have turned their high-powered telescopes toward a 100-meter wide asteroid hurtling in its orbit through the Milky Way galaxy and are hoping it doesn’t collide ...

Bennu Coffee is one of a handful of locations in Austin that is home to Bitcoin ATMs. The Texas Senate on Thursday passed a measure that would establish a state-controlled cryptocurrency reserve ...

Most recently, NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) obtained samples from asteroid 101955 Bennu. In addition to confirming ...

An artist's conception of a hot rocky planet's view as it orbits Barnard's Star. Credit: International Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / P. Marenfeld Barnard's Star, just some 6 light ...

A growing number of companies are eyeing the moon as a source of commercial opportunities. Two private landings in under a week suggest our nearest celestial neighbor is open for business. Rapidly ...