NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...

The potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu probably won't hit Earth. But this study shows the damage a space rock of its size ...

OSIRIS-REx isn't done yet. After swinging past Earth to drop off the Bennu Sample, it is now headed out to intercept the orbit of asteroid Apophis. In doing so, OSIRIS-REx was officially renamed ...

Scientists recently completed computer simulations of what would happen to Earth if it were impacted by an asteroid with a ...

Samples of matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building blocks of life to Earth, scientists report in a pair of new studies published ...

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

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced on Wednesday.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Samples from asteroid Bennu, returned by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, contain all five nitrogenous bases essential for DNA and RNA, supporting the idea that ...