Scientists studying samples from the Bennu asteroid located not too far from Earth continue to find clues as to how life began in our solar system.

The nitrogen in the gum was found to be in nitrogen heterocycles, which are the building blocks of nucleobases in DNA and RNA. This brings us to the other new discovery, reported in Nature Geoscience, ...

An ancient asteroid older than Earth itself has reignited debate over whether life began in space. NASA's Bennu discovery ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...

The people of the 22nd and 23rd centuries have a little less to worry about as of Wednesday, as NASA scientists have confirmed there is little likelihood that the half-kilometer-wide near-Earth ...

Bennu is one of the most hazardous known asteroids in our solar system. Thanks to a visit by a NASA spacecraft, scientists have a much greater understanding of the near-Earth asteroid, its upcoming ...

A bright fireball streaked across the sky above mountains, glaciers and spruce forest near the town of Revelstoke in British Columbia, Canada, on the evening of March 31, 1965. Fragments of this ...

The near-Earth asteroid Bennu could be Exhibit A for space miners making their case to skeptical investors. New observations by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft suggest that the 1,650-foot-wide (500 ...

An international team of scientists put the idea to the test thanks to mountains of data regarding OSIRIS-REx’s recent ...