The asteroid known as Bennu has revealed some tantalizing secrets to NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Some rocks and surface features of the asteroid appear to indicate that water once flowed on its ...
A pristine asteroid sample that could serve as a time capsule from the early days of our solar system has finally been revealed. The rocks and dust contain water and a large amount of carbon, said ...
A bright fireball streaked across the sky above mountains, glaciers and spruce forest near the town of Revelstoke in British ...
The answer to the origins of life on Earth may lie scattered across the solar system. That’s why NASA launched a mission to ...
Following a preliminary assessment, NASA has announced that the asteroid samples its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft took from asteroid Bennu are rich in both water and carbon — the "building blocks of life on ...
The asteroid Bennu is a strange little place, but data from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is starting to unravel its mysteries. The spacecraft, which has been orbiting Bennu since December 2018, is ...
NASA had a big reveal party on Wednesday. The nation's first-ever asteroid samples, which were delivered last month to a desert in Utah, were shown off at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The 4 ...