The US wants to put a flag on Mars. But there’s a risk it could carry unwanted stowaways that might compromise future ...

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The potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu probably won't hit Earth. But this study shows the damage a space rock of its size ...

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with Earth, a study has ...

January 19, 2025 On January 19, 2025, in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, @ellazcj shared a video of their baby daughter helping with ...

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

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

Scientists recently discovered that San Bernardino County's Searles Lake contains minerals found in outer space.

The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life ...

The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were ...

When exposed to formaldehyde, which was also detected, ammonia can form amino acids, the building blocks of proteins.

Analyses of rock and dust samples from the asteroid Bennu collected and brought to Earth by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft show ...