A recent paper published in Nature and Nature Astronomy finding life's building blocks on a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu.

It's up in the air how much longer the beloved telescope will be with us.

Water-rich meteorites contain key ingredients for life, yet they barely appear in meteorite collections. Recent research ...

Did you know that Canadian feet were actually the first to touch down on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission?

(NASA) When the Space Shuttle Discovery blasted off in 1990, ferrying the Hubble Space Telescope to orbit, it was the Canadarm ... bound for near-Earth asteroid Bennu. On board the spacecraft ...

While the spring semester is winding down, the University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium is amping up its offerings ...

So, the OSIRIS‑REx mission ventured to the asteroid Bennu to retrieve an unaltered ... likely gets broken down through heat stress when its orbit takes it close to the sun.

Carbonaceous near-Earth asteroid Bennu as seen from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx ... likely gets broken down through heat stress when its orbit takes it close to the Sun. As carbonaceous chondrites orbit ...