Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing asteroid Bennu samples, some of the most pristine ever collected. These fragments date back 4.5 billion years and contain salts, ...

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

This mineral-rich asteroid might have carried the seeds of life. Planetary scientists have discovered organic matter ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...

Scientists from South Korea have conducted simulations regarding the potential impact of asteroid Bennu on Earth in the year ...

It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it ...

Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried ...

Scientists have discovered a unique sequence of minerals that formed from evaporated water in samples from Bennu.

Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...

This week, explore what lurks in asteroid dust, marvel at the world’s largest beaded burial, discover an elusive creature ...

Bennu’s parent asteroid, which formed around 4.5 billion years ago, seems to have been home to pockets of liquid water.

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.