Scientists recently completed computer simulations of what would happen to Earth if it were impacted by an asteroid with a ...

Space agencies around the world are tasked with locating, studying and analysing the trajectories of cosmic objects that pose ...

Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing asteroid Bennu samples, some of the most pristine ever ...

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

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

The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has provided groundbreaking insights into the early solar system and the potential origins of life.

Additionally, researchers uncovered salts in the Bennu cache and minerals crucial ... that one day may carry humans to the moon and Mars. The spacecraft had broken apart minutes after liftoff ...

It remains the biggest cosmic haul from beyond the moon. The two previous asteroid sample missions, by Japan, yielded considerably less material. Small amounts of Bennu’s precious black grains ...

Bennu was an especially interesting target. Prior work had suggested asteroids have the organic molecules that form the basis of life on Earth. These molecules could have hitched a ride on asteroids ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino ...