Asteroid Bennu, the near-Earth object NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission sampled in 2020, has long been treated by scientists as a ...

Asteroid tracking rarely produces a clean, single number that captures how worried anyone should actually be, and the case of ...

Early analysis of the asteroid Bennu sample returned by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission has revealed dust rich in carbon, nitrogen, and organic compounds, all of which are essential components for life as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Collage of OSIRIS-REx spacecraft over asteroid Bennu, an image of Bennu, and engineers preparing the sample return capsule. Talk ...

Our solar system is filled with rocky debris tumbling around the sun, most of which is the same age, but sometimes you find ...

A big question in the origin of life on Earth is why it is based solely on "left-handed" amino acids. Studies on asteroid Bennu's chemical building blocks deepens the mystery. Credit: Christoph ...

In one of the biggest surprises of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, its target asteroid, Bennu, turned out to be a jagged, rugged world covered in large boulders, with few of the smooth patches that earlier ...

You might wonder why NASA (and scientists) care so much about stuff that looks like some black gravel. It's because it is likely the stuff that formed the solar system. If you're a cynic, you might ...

NASA's first asteroid sample is the most pristine sample of its kind. Now, back on Earth, the sample from asteroid Bennu has already delivered surprising findings about the early solar system and ...

Magnesium-sodium phosphate found in NASA's OSIRIS-Rex asteroid sample suggests Bennu, seen above, could have originated from an ancient, primitive ocean world. Credit: NASA What the team found was ...

Talk about a sugar rush! NASA may have just come a little closer to cracking one of science’s most enduring mysteries — how life on Earth got started. The space agency has reportedly discovered ...