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It wasn't a comet: scientists have identified the true origin of the dinosaur killer

A recent study indicates that the object responsible for the dinosaur extinction 66 million years ago was a rare type of asteroid from the distant corners of the Solar System. A team of researchers led by Mario Fischer-Gödde from the University of C...

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Asteroid Bennu broke away from a small oceanic planet - scientists analyze samples

On September 24, 2023, the NASA OSIRIS-REx spacecraft delivered a capsule with carbonaceous regolith collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu to Earth. The samples were obtained after the probe made a seven-year journey through the Solar System. ...

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NASA published the first photo of samples of asteroid Bennu from the OSIRIS-REx main repository

Last week, the space agency finally opened the capsule with samples of the Bennu asteroid, which was delivered by OSIRIS-REx, after struggling for months to deal with a faulty lid fastening. The Bennu asteroid is a near-Earth asteroid of class "B" (...

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