Analysis of samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu reveal that it has a bizarre chemical make-up and is unusually magnetic ...

Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar ...

Asteroid Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old space rock, may hold clues to Earth's origins. With traces of water, amino acids, and ...

"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...

Smithsonian and NASA scientists set out to collect an asteroid sample that may hold clues to the origins of life in our solar ...

Seeing the invisible, that’s what a small group of scientists at Los Alamos National Labs are trying to do with data recovered from a near-Earth asteroid and ...

But real lightning would have struck infrequently—and mostly in open ocean, where organic compounds would have quickly ...

NASA has proven that successful extraction of materials from asteroids is possible; this was most recently seen with the promising results of its OSIRIS-REx mission, which retrieved samples containing ...