The Bennu asteroid, a space rock not too far from Earth that is rich in carbon, continues to be a trove of information for ...

Talk about a sugar rush! NASA may have just come a little closer to cracking one of science’s most enduring mysteries — how ...

Several sugars have been found on a sample of the asteroid Bennu, which may provide scientists with clues about our early ...

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 ...

Three more papers on the samples brought back from asteroid Bennu reveal the place contains the building blocks of DNA and ...

Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life ...

Researchers say the latest discovery is particularly significant because tryptophan has never before been detected in ...

New research announced by NASA on Tuesday details a bevy of exciting discoveries from asteroid dust that could provide clues ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every six years at about 186,000 miles (299,000 km) away. It ...

An essential amino acid that is mistakenly believed to cause drowsiness after eating turkey has been found in an asteroid for the first time, giving scientists clues to the origin of life on Earth.

The asteroid Bennu is a scientific gem, but a potentially dangerous one: No other space rock has a higher known probability of hitting Earth in the next 200 years. NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid-sampling ...

No, it’s not necessarily the premise of a Netflix movie, per se. But humanity could be faced with an asteroid hitting Earth in the near future — depending on what you consider “near.” In a recent ...