NASA is keeping a close watch on three asteroids making near-Earth approaches today. One of them, named 2025 CF, will pass within just 77,200 miles of our planet-roughly one-third ...
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.
The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ingredients were mingling with water almost right from the start.