A team of US astronomers has carried out one of the deepest analyses to date of a sample from the asteroid Bennu, revealing ...

The surface of asteroid Bennu has long left questions for scientists after a Nasa planetary science mission showed the asteroid was actually more rough and jagged than previously expected. NASA's ...

When scaled up to boulder size, the thermal inertia results fell into agreement with what the spacecraft had measured at the asteroid. Where scientists once expected the boulders of Bennu to be ...

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 ...

Did the ingredients for life as we know it exist in the early solar system? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to address as a team of ...

When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission brought back samples from asteroid 101955 Bennu, researchers found that they contained amino acids, the building blocks necessary for life. Amino acids are the molecules ...

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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft didn’t just collect rocks from asteroid Bennu — it brought back samples that are rewriting our understanding of the early solar system. Scientists found unexpected ...

Size does indeed matter, but not for the reasons—or to the people—you might be thinking. Study finds women prefer taller, V-shaped men with larger penises, but preferences plateau. Men see exaggerated ...

NASA expected Asteroid Bennu to behave like a solid body. Instead, OSIRIS-REx found a surface far more fragile and unpredictable than planned. The discovery forced mission planners to adapt in real ...

Talk about a sugar rush! NASA may have just come a little closer to cracking one of science’s most enduring mysteries — how life on Earth got started. The space agency has reportedly discovered ...

Researchers discovered sugars essential for biology, including glucose, in the asteroid material for the first time. A strange, pliable substance nicknamed "space gum" was also found, which could have ...