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

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

Tantalizing clues in 4-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu samples could reveal particular molecular formations that some ...

Learn about new evidence that suggests life on Earth may have started with the help of molecules that were delivered by ...

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 ...

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

In May 2021, OSIRIS-REx began its journey back to Earth carrying dust from Bennu - a rubble-pile asteroid older than Earth itself. When the capsule was opened in 2023, scientists were stunned by ...

NASA's Lucy probe will zip past the asteroid Donaldjohanson, testing its science instruments on the space rock.