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

OSIRIS-REx samples from asteroid Bennu contained amino acids, nucleobases, sugars and water-rich minerals. The video explains ...

Scientists have detected all five major nitrogenous bases used to store genetic information in DNA and RNA in samples from ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission encountered an unexpected mystery when it arrived at asteroid Bennu in 2018. Instead of the relatively smooth terrain that earlier observations had suggested, the spacecraft ...

Sand weighing half as much as a one-yen coin has shaken the conventional wisdom about an asteroid's birthplace.Of the samples ...

Asteroid defense drills and nuclear research raise questions about Earth’s readiness for a potentially devastating impact.

Asteroid Bennu has puzzled scientists for years. Its surface is covered with massive boulders, a landscape that should, in principle, retain heat for longer. However, observations from space showed ...

The asteroid that sweeps closest to Earth is not necessarily the cheapest one to visit. A rock that passes within easy ...

Tiny samples from asteroid Bennu are rewriting scientists' understanding of how our Solar System formed. New evidence suggests that Bennu was born where material from the inner and outer Solar System ...

Asteroid mining and platinum group metals supply: no PGM grade has been measured on any unvisited asteroid. See what the headline valuations ignore.

Japan’s Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) spacecraft is now on its way to Mars, preparing to provide a further test of the ...

Cambridge Monte Carlo simulations published October 28, 2026 in Scientific Reports find comets struck early Earth too fast ...