Analysis of samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu reveal that it has a bizarre chemical make-up and is ...

Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking Earth are almost zero after earlier data had indicated a higher risk of a ...

"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our ...

The most common are C-type asteroids, made of clay and silicate rocks and darker in appearance ... which retrieved samples containing organic compounds from Bennu, a carbonaceous asteroid. Scientists ...

Smithsonian and NASA scientists set out to collect an asteroid sample that may hold clues to the origins of life in our solar ...

Asteroid Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old space rock, may hold clues to Earth's origins. With traces of water, amino acids, and ...

The researchers plan to compare the Ryugu sample with that taken from the asteroid Bennu when NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returns to Earth later this year. Joshua Hawkins Writer Josh Hawkins has ...

For instance, NASA's robotic OSIRIS-REx spacecraft journeyed to an asteroid named Bennu and in 2020 collected samples of rock and dust that, according to a study published in January, bore some of ...

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center The next stop for NASA's asteroid-hopping spacecraft Lucy is a space rock named Donaldjohanson ... very distinct from Bennu and Ryugu.