This mineral-rich asteroid might have carried the seeds of life. Planetary scientists have discovered organic matter ...

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

Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids ...

Bennu’s highly unlikely impact with Earth—which could happen in 157 years—could cause a global winter and drought, modeling ...

A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, ...

Bennu’s parent asteroid, which formed around 4.5 billion years ago, seems to have been home to pockets of liquid water.

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

New insights from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission have unveiled intriguing clues about the potential origins of life on Earth. The ...

The asteroid Bennu contains all the materials needed for life. This backs up an old hypothesis that the building blocks of ...

WASHINGTON – NASA has unveiled discoveries made from examining a sample taken from the asteroid Bennu, which sheds light ...

In September 2023, a capsule containing the pristine ... sizes and chemical compositions. Asteroid Bennu was targeted for the OSIRIS-REx mission because remote sensing observations from Earth ...