NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission reached asteroid 101955 Bennu. Two years later, the spacecraft snagged a sample of its surface, ...

New insights from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission have unveiled intriguing clues about the potential origins of life on Earth. The ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...

YR4, a near-Earth asteroid has a one-in-45 chance of hitting Planet Earth in December 2032, NASA and the European Space ...

Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids ...

In a recent study, scientists at the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) at Pusan National University in South Korea ...

Two exciting new studies detail the life-supporting contents of a 4.3-ounce sample of the asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-REx ... of the Solar System—beyond the orbit of Jupiter.

Additionally, researchers uncovered salts in the Bennu cache and minerals crucial ... stepping out for a spacewalk after more than seven months in orbit. The Mount Lyell shrew was unaware it ...

Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced ...

It formed in the outer solar system, beyond the orbit of Jupiter. Despite its great distance from the sun, Bennu’s parent body remained warm because it contained radioactive elements. Glavin and his ...

They orbit the sun and come in many different shapes, sizes and chemical compositions. Asteroid Bennu was targeted for the OSIRIS-REx mission because remote sensing observations from Earth ...

Bennu has long intrigued researchers due to its near-Earth orbit and carbon-rich composition. Scientists theorized that the asteroid contained traces of water and organic molecules and that ...