As the asteroid lines up for a planetary flyby in 2029, space agencies are coordinating to conduct some groundbreaking ...

A planetary scientist explains new research explaining the differing compositions between space rocks that hit Earth and are ...

Scientists have found special chemical compounds necessary for the existence of life in samples collected from asteroid Bennu ...

One of these lumps became the asteroid Bennu whose minerals, recently returned to Earth by the US robot space probe OSIRIS-REx, have now been found to contain rich levels of complex chemicals that are ...

Late last year, NASA announced it had selected sites to grab samples from the asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-REx mission ... and two kilograms for return to Earth in September 2023.

Samples from the asteroids Ryugu and Bennu, which were brought back to Earth, contained prebiotic molecules ... known as the “late heavy bombardment,” when severe comet and asteroid impacts made the ...

Space agencies from the US, Europe and Japan are all making plans to visit the asteroid Apophis when it makes an extremely ...

Before hitting the Earth, rocks traveling through space are ... So, the OSIRIS‑REx mission ventured to the asteroid Bennu to retrieve an unaltered sample. Retrieving this sample allowed ...