REx mission has an historic opportunity to closely observe the asteroid Apophis and improve our ability to defend against ...

Laila Soueif is a mathematician, a university professor, a political activist. But as she slumped in a folding chair outside ...

An asteroid impact today could be devastating. But a few billion years ago, an impact may have helped life exist. Scientists hope to learn more about that possibility with recently extracted samples ...

A report published in Science Advances details when the asteroid could collide with Earth and the destruction it would cause.

There comes a point in every child’s life when they ask where babies come from. And for some reason, parents turn to the ...

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Bennu asteroid sample reveals amino acids and nucleobases essential for Water-related minerals in the sample point to ancient chemical processe Equal left- and right-handed amino acids raise questions ...

A hot water extract from an asteroid Bennu sample (left, “Bennu tea”) was found to contain a surprising abundance of ammoni.(NASA) In a major twist to the study of life beyond Earth ...

Asteroid Bennu, once thought a lifeless relic, has surprised scientists with briny traces of life's raw ingredients. Samples collected by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission reveal not only water marks from ...

When a scientist received a video of a spotted hyena in the southern part of his country, he thought someone was playing a ...

A modern case in point: The asteroid Bennu contains all the materials needed for life. The OSIRIS-REx mission launched in 2016. Its main aim was to study Bennu and retrieve samples to bring back ...