Two exciting new studies detail the life-supporting contents of a 4.3-ounce sample of the asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-REx ...

NASA researchers have been studying rock and dust brought back to Earth from the asteroid, Bennu. Those particles revealed ...

The closest of the asteroids to us—estimated to be about the size of a car—is whizzing through space at 27,358 miles per hour ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino acids and nucleobases found in DNA and RNA. The presence of ammonia and ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft mission has delivered a sample of the asteroid Bennu to Earth and it has been found to contain ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...

The odds are about 1% that the football field-sized object could hit the Earth, but that makes it the closest call in more than 20 years.

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

There are no stars in the sky for the same reason you don't see stars during the day on Earth, according to NASA: The bright glow of daylight ... is that it was a large meteorite or an asteroid, ...

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