Asteroid Bennu is one of the most closely watched rocks in the solar system, and for good reason: it is among the very few ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Since its discovery in 1999, the near-Earth asteroid Bennu has captivated scientists as a time capsule from the early solar system ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Collage of OSIRIS-REx spacecraft over asteroid Bennu, an image of Bennu, and engineers preparing the sample return capsule. Talk ...

A big question in the origin of life on Earth is why it is based solely on "left-handed" amino acids. Studies on asteroid Bennu's chemical building blocks deepens the mystery. Credit: Christoph ...

In one of the biggest surprises of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, its target asteroid, Bennu, turned out to be a jagged, rugged world covered in large boulders, with few of the smooth patches that earlier ...

New research announced by NASA on Tuesday details a bevy of exciting discoveries from asteroid dust that could provide clues to how life developed in our neck of the cosmos, including the sugars ...

NASA's first asteroid sample is the most pristine sample of its kind. Now, back on Earth, the sample from asteroid Bennu has already delivered surprising findings about the early solar system and ...

Magnesium-sodium phosphate found in NASA's OSIRIS-Rex asteroid sample suggests Bennu, seen above, could have originated from an ancient, primitive ocean world. Credit: NASA What the team found was ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that shed light on how life arose. By Carl Zimmer See more of our coverage in your ...

Studies of the sample reveal amino acids that “life on Earth uses to make proteins” plus evidence of water. Studies of the sample reveal amino acids that “life on Earth uses to make proteins” plus ...

Talk about a sugar rush! NASA may have just come a little closer to cracking one of science’s most enduring mysteries — how life on Earth got started. The space agency has reportedly discovered ...