The finding, reported in the science journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, is significant because the data reported by the ...

Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient ...

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

Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...

Earth is home to some truly bizarre and breathtaking landscapes — here are 20 that look straight out of an alien world.

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

As I embarked the Seabourn Venture in Ushuaia, Argentina, the southernmost city in the world, I knew my mission to play golf ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

The discovery is a capstone achievement for NASA, which went to great lengths to secure and deliver asteroid samples from asteroid Bennu in 2020.

The search for water on the Moon has captivated scientists for decades. Beyond its implications for understanding planetary ...