The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...

Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...

Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...

A team of researchers have now modelled what will happen to the planet, climate and humans if this asteroid crashes on Earth ...

Before the mission visited Bennu, scientists knew that the asteroid was probably carbonaceous — rich in carbon, and containing water molecules locked up in clay minerals. But until the samples came ...

These asteroids are rich in carbon and hydrated clay minerals, possibly sharing similarities to the most primitive group of meteorites on Earth, known as carbonaceous chondrites. Unlike meteorite ...

Bennu is a carbon-rich asteroid whose components have remained relatively unchanged since the solar system's early days. NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex mission captured samples from the surface of the asteroid and ...

Experts have unearthed the 'strongest evidence yet' for aliens on other planets after pieces of an asteroid were found to ...