Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient ...

All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

Astronomers have retracted the discovery of a new asteroid after realizing the object was the remains of Elon Musk's Tesla ...

Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...

NASA is tracking a truck-sized asteroid which is set to hurtle by Earth today at many times the velocity of a speeding bullet. The space rock—dubbed "2025 BV5"—is estimated by NASA's Jet Propulsion ...

It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but ...

BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.

NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned the samples from Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, in 2023. It's the biggest cosmic haul ...