In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.

NASA's asteroid samples contain organic compounds and minerals that may have seeded early Earth with life's building blocks.

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

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

When you find a strange looking rock in the desert, it’s likely worth having some experts take a proper look at it, just like in this case.

Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient ...

CNN reports how new research from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center published to “Nature” has revealed that samples from the near-Earth asteroid, Bennu, contains organic compounds and minerals ...

The chemical makeup of mineral inclusions preserved in impact glass hints at the site of a missing impact crater.

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

Studies of asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft have revealed molecules that, on our planet, are key to life.

A team of scientists discovered that the near-Earth asteroid, known as Bennu, contains a wealth of minerals and organic molecules, including many that are building blocks of life. But what has the 4.5 ...

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