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

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...

Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water world, scientists reported Wednesday. The findings provide the ...

A portion of the asteroid Bennu sample delivered to ... similar really interesting carbonate-rich lakes on Earth, we can say, this system, it has no biology, and we can understand what its signatures ...

Based on current estimates, there is a 1.3% chance the asteroid -- measuring about 328 feet wide -- could strike Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. "An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few ...

Nearly 60 years later, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu ... can compare the compositions of everything from other chondrites to Earth ...

Although this does not mean that life is present on Bennu, a small asteroid in our solar system, it does show that the conditions for life to emerge are present in locations beyond Earth.

TEMPLE, Texas — New samples from an asteroid could suggest that the conditions for life are not unique to Earth, according to NASA. NASA stated that studies of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu ...

Sending a spacecraft to a near-Earth asteroid, gathering dust and ... collected in October 2020 from the asteroid Bennu, among researchers around the globe. This week, scientists who analyzed ...

The building blocks for organic matter have been discovered on the asteroid Bennu, as deatiled in a new study in the journal ...