YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

Samples brought back to Earth from asteroid "Bennu" in 2023 have been found to contain crucial building blocks for life—including amino acids and all five DNA and RNA nucleobases. The findings ...

Bennu’s potential collision with Earth is a remote but unsettling possibility, according to a new study. Bennu is about 500 metres wide—taller than the Empire State Building and as wide as ...

While the odds of Bennu impacting Earth may sound alarming, they're not entirely unexpected. "On average, medium-sized asteroids collide with Earth about every 100–200 thousand years.

The "parade of planets" in the evening sky continues. Starting the evening of Feb. 22, Mercury will join the lineup but it will be very low near the horizon shortly after sunset, so you might need ...

The brain's ability to process information is known to be supported by intricate connections between different neuron populations. A key objective of neuroscience research has been to delineate ...

Carthage Public Library District joins more than 200 Illinois Libraries Present (ILP) members to virtually host “Exploring Space with Coralie Adam” on Tuesday, March 4, at 7 p.m. Attend a ...

In 2016, NASA launched the spacecraft OSIRIS-REx towards the near-earth asteroid Bennu. The spacecraft managed to make contact in 2020, collecting samples which returned in 2023. Those samples ...