Asteroid With the Force of “22 Atomic Bombs” Being Tracked by Scientists Ahead of Key Date ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Several new studies on a near-Earth asteroid are offering fresh clues about the early solar system. Samples from the asteroid, ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists have fine-tuned the path of the asteroid Bennu and say the odds of it smacking into Earth are higher than previously thought but still quite low. NASA's ...

Scientists studying samples from the asteroid Bennu have uncovered a surprisingly complex chemical landscape at the tiniest ...

Scientists studying Bennu samples have discovered that its chemistry is far from uniform. Organic compounds and minerals ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft spent two years observing the asteroid Bennu before it collected a ...

Penn State researchers think a key ingredient for life may have formed in deep freeze, not in a warm asteroid puddle. Scientists at Penn State; led by geoscientist Allison Baczynski and postdoctoral ...

Sugars essential for life were found for the first time alongside “space gum” on an asteroid hurtling towards Earth, indicating that our universe could be teeming with life, according to new research.

Dust from asteroid Bennu is revealing a surprising origin story for life’s building blocks. New research suggests some amino acids formed in frozen ice exposed to radiation, not warm liquid water as ...

Several new studies on a near-Earth asteroid are offering fresh clues about the early solar system. Samples from the asteroid, named Bennu, were delivered to Earth by NASA’S OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in ...