Analysis of samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu reveal that it has a bizarre chemical make-up and is ...

(THE CONVERSATION) A bright fireball streaked across the sky above mountains, glaciers and spruce forest near the town of Revelstoke in British Columbia, Canada, on the evening of March 31, 1965.

Scientists studying the sample collected in 2023 from asteroid Bennu have announced a dramatic ... which would provide a location for the necessary chemical reactions for life to occur.

Smithsonian and NASA scientists set out to collect an asteroid sample that may hold clues to the origins of life in our solar system.

New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit ...

Climatic and ecological consequences Responses to dust injections of 400 million tonnes from a Bennu-type asteroid impact: spatial changes in surface temperature, total precipitation, percentage ...

Advertisement Article continues below this ad Nearly 60 years later, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu, similar to the one that rained rocks ...

NASA spacecraft touched down on the rugged surface of the Bennu asteroid on Tuesday, grabbing a sample of rocks dating back to the birth of our solar system to bring home. The minivan-sized OSIRIS ...