A team of US astronomers has carried out one of the deepest analyses to date of a sample from the asteroid Bennu, revealing ...

Scientists studying the samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission have found a surprisingly intricate ...

Scientists studying samples from the asteroid Bennu have uncovered a surprisingly complex chemical landscape at the tiniest ...

NASA’s study of Bennu reveals why its rocky surface behaves like sand. The answer lies in cracks deep inside its boulders.

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

Scientists studying Bennu samples have discovered that its chemistry is far from uniform. Organic compounds and minerals ...

Did the ingredients for life as we know it exist in the early solar system? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to address as a team of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The surface of asteroid Bennu has long left questions for scientists after a Nasa planetary science mission showed the asteroid ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo missions—and they’re shaking up the search for life beyond Earth. The OSIRIS-REx ...

Dust from asteroid Bennu is revealing a surprising origin story for life’s building blocks. New research suggests some amino acids formed in frozen ice exposed to radiation, not warm liquid water as ...

The surface of asteroid Bennu has long left questions for scientists after a Nasa planetary science mission showed the asteroid was actually more rough and jagged than previously expected. NASA's ...