Recent papers published in Nature and Nature Astronomy found life’s building blocks on a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu.

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

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 ...

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.

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

The study, recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, indicates that asteroid and comet impacts possibly ... Samples from the asteroids Ryugu and Bennu, which were ...

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

Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit and spin properties have undergone significant evolution since. When NASA's Lucy ...