But be prepared: Spotting asteroid 877 Alinda will be an Easter egg hunt. "It's a magnitude of +9, which is not very bright," Swangin said. "Asteroids are one of those things you have to look ...

The paper divides metals on asteroids into two distinct types—those ... However, given the chicken-and-egg problem of not having any demand for these space-sourced metals because they are ...

There are many asteroids in our solar system which orbit the Sun in oval or egg-shaped elliptical orbits which can take millions of years to complete. There are large numbers of asteroids orbiting ...

Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.