Tantalizing clues in 4-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu samples could reveal particular molecular formations that some ...

Much of what scientists know about the early solar system comes from meteorites – ancient rocks that travel through space and survive a fiery plunge ...

The mission, which launched on Sept. 8, 2016, targeting the primordial asteroid Bennu, believed to have remained largely unchanged since the solar system's formation 4.6 billion years ago.

That’s why NASA launched a mission to the near-Earth asteroid Bennu in 2016. In 2020, the OSIRIS-REx mission made history by ...

Nasa says there is a small chance a recently spotted asteroid could collide with the Moon. Studying it can inform our ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 Bennu after the mission returned its samples to Earth in 2023.

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

The discovery of salty mineral evaporites on Ryugu indicates that watery environments may have been widespread in the early ...

A University of Tokyo team achieved the feat with an AI-based rock identification tool that was fed information on rocks on ...