Scientists found that asteroid Bennu contained a set of salty mineral deposits that formed in an exact sequence when a brine evaporated, leaving clues about the type of water that flowed billions of ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...

Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source and Molecular Foundry provided powerful tools to study asteroid samples returned by NASA ...

Scientists have finally had a close look at the rubble collected by a spacecraft from the asteroid Bennu. Here's what they ...

Samples from the asteroid Bennu, which landed in Utah's west desert in September 2023, could suggest rocks carrying an ...

These environments are like places that we think life could've started on early Earth.' ...

It also found all five ... used to map the asteroid in order to collect the sample. Chris Herd, a professor and geologist at the University of Alberta, is expecting to get a Bennu sample ...

When a scientist received a video of a spotted hyena in the southern part of his country, he thought someone was playing a ...