REx sample return capsule contained rock from the asteroid Bennu. NASA/Keegan Barber Mary Magnuson, Collecting asteroid samples China’s Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission is set to launch this ...

A 2.35-billion-year-old meteorite with a unique chemical signature, found in Africa in 2023, plugs a major gap in our ...

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The PolyCam was tasked with spotting the first glimpse of the asteroid. It has now provided the first peek of Bennu’s surface features, such as large boulders.

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life were astonishingly widespread in the early solar system ...

This allowed the researchers to inspect microscopic features on asteroid fragments less than a micrometer—or 1/100th the width of a human hair—in size.

This allowed the researchers to inspect microscopic features on asteroid fragments less than a micrometer—or 1/100th the width of a human hair—in size. The team was surprised to find traces of ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe has already had quite an eventful year. After initially arriving at the space rock known as Bennu in early December, the … ...

Could tiny primordial black holes, formed in the earliest moments of our universe, be lurking inside asteroids or even beneath our feet? A provocative new study suggests an innovative way to search ...

The asteroid known as Bennu has revealed some tantalizing secrets to NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Some rocks and surface features of the asteroid appear to indicate that water once flowed on ...