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

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

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

A newly discovered asteroid named 2024 YR4 now has a 2.2% chance of affecting Earth in 2032 after recent observations.

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

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...

YR4, which was recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years, may have caused ...

The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were ...

That’s why NASA launched a mission to the near-Earth asteroid Bennu in 2016. In 2020, the OSIRIS-REx mission made history by ...

A new climate modeling study published in the journal Science Advances by researchers from the IBS Center for Climate Physics ...

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