When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...

Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried ...

Our knowledge of life itself may be altered by a discovery made by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx project. The existence of organic molecules on the near-Earth object asteroid Bennu, which could be the key to the ...

If the near-Earth asteroid Bennu were to collide with Earth in the future, the space rock could cause substantial global damage, even though it’s a fraction of the size of the asteroid that ...

Jason Dworkin, OSIRIS-REx project scientist, pointed out that the majority of the Bennu sample is still unexplored. With the ...

The asteroid Bennu contains all the materials needed for life. This backs up an old hypothesis that the building blocks of ...

In other words, Bennu's samples provide further evidence that life's building blocks formed early in the solar system and ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino ...

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

Scientists found 11 minerals in Bennu samples, including calcite, halite, and sylvite, that form when water with dissolved ...

Although the chances of impact are slim, Bennu is still one of the most potentially hazardous known asteroids in our solar system, and we need to be prepared for what could come. A first-of-its ...

Jason Dworkin, OSIRIS-REx project scientist, pointed out that the majority of the Bennu sample is still unexplored. With the same careful curation as the Apollo samples, scientists will be able to ...