The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...
Bennu’s highly unlikely impact with Earth—which could happen in 157 years—could cause a global winter and drought, modeling ...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino ...
A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...
The latest discovery, unveiled by the NASA on January 29, came as a bit of a surprise and posed many exciting questions such ...
NASA's asteroid samples contain organic compounds and minerals that may have seeded early Earth with life's building blocks.
Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...
We live in a golden age for space exploration. Scientists are gathering massive amounts of new information and scientific ...
Simulations of a massive asteroid, as wide as the Eiffel Tower is tall, suggest Earth could face catastrophic consequences, ...
The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were ...