When scientists cracked open the first grains from asteroid Bennu, they expected a time capsule of rock and dust. What they ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

If nonliving materials can produce rich, organized mixtures of organic molecules, then the traditional signs we use to ...

A bright fireball streaked across the sky above mountains, glaciers and spruce forest near the town of Revelstoke in British Columbia, Canada, on the evening of March 31, 1965. Fragments of this ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...

Learn about the molecules and materials found in samples of asteroid Bennu, including sugars, space gum, and an abundance of stardust. The asteroid Bennu is full of surprises that keep on coming, each ...

With the return of an Asteroid Bennu sample in 2023 as part of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, researchers from the University of Arizona have made significant discoveries toward understanding the origins ...

A small saucer-shape capsule carrying a half-pound of rocks and dust collected from an asteroid called Bennu — leftovers from the formation of the solar system 4.5 billion years ago — is expected to ...

A NASA spacecraft is on the final leg of its journey back to Earth after collecting samples from asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-REx mission successfully selected samples of the asteroid in 2020. It is set ...

Bits of rock and dust brought back from the distant asteroid Bennu contain some of the chemical building blocks of life, NASA announced Wednesday, a discovery that strengthens the theory that ...

No, it’s not necessarily the premise of a Netflix movie, per se. But humanity could be faced with an asteroid hitting Earth in the near future — depending on what you consider “near.” In a recent ...