In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 ...

Discover the fascinating findings from asteroid Bennu: pristine salt minerals reveal the presence of liquid water in the ...

REx brought back to Earth 121 grams of material from asteroid Bennu. This is the largest sample ever collected and brought ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar system through some of the most well-preserved asteroid samples ever collected, potentially ...

Purdue professor along with a team of scientists analyze asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to give a better understanding of the past.

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...

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