A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

This week, explore what lurks in asteroid dust, marvel at the world’s largest beaded burial, discover an elusive creature ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.

Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar system through some of the most well-preserved asteroid samples ever collected, potentially ...

This mineral-rich asteroid might have carried the seeds of life. Planetary scientists have discovered organic matter ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...

This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the ...

NASA's asteroid samples contain organic compounds and minerals that may have seeded early Earth with life's building blocks.

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...

Scientists have found all five nucleobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...

The building blocks for organic matter have been discovered on the asteroid Bennu, as deatiled in a new study in the journal ...