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

A team of US astronomers has carried out one of the deepest analyses to date of a sample from the asteroid Bennu, revealing new details about how water and organic material interacted during the ...

Scientists studying Bennu samples have discovered that its chemistry is far from uniform. Organic compounds and minerals cluster into three distinct types of regions, each shaped differently by past ...

Life on Earth may have origins from far, far away. Scientists have found a full set of life-building molecules in a nearly pristine asteroid sample, and the discovery suggests that the necessary ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Scientists say they are studying a surprise from space. NASA recently released scans of the Bennu Asteroid from the agency's Osiris-Rex Mission. Using older Earth scans and ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) - NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission faced an unexpected challenge when its target, asteroid Bennu, revealed a rugged landscape filled with large boulders instead of the anticipated smooth ...

These are X-ray computed tomography (XCT) scans of particles from asteroid Bennu. They show the most common types of crack networks observed in Bennu samples. Credits: NASA/Scott Eckley To test ...

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 ...

In one of the biggest surprises of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, its target asteroid, Bennu, turned out to be a jagged, rugged world covered in large boulders, with few of the smooth patches that earlier ...

A new study adds to a growing body of evidence that suggests asteroid impacts played a critical role in the emergence of life on our planet. Reading time 3 minutes Early Earth was a brutally hot, ...

This image shows the asteroid Bennu from the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. (NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/CSA/York/MDA via AP) (CN) — Scientists analyzing samples ...

Scientists have found evidence that amino acids, the chemical building blocks of life (specifically proteins), formed on the asteroid Bennu when it was so far from the Sun as to be frozen. This ...