Tantalizing clues in 4-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu samples could reveal particular molecular formations that some ...

Nasa says there is a small chance a recently spotted asteroid could collide with the Moon. Studying it can inform our ...

The discovery of salty mineral evaporites on Ryugu indicates that watery environments may have been widespread in the early ...

A planetary scientist explains new research explaining the differing compositions between space rocks that hit Earth and are brought back.

"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our solar system." ...

The most common are C-type asteroids, made of clay and silicate rocks and darker in appearance ... which retrieved samples containing organic compounds from Bennu, a carbonaceous asteroid. Scientists ...

With the return of an Asteroid Bennu sample in 2023 as part of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, researchers from the University of Arizona have made significant discoveries toward understanding the ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx set out to collect a pristine sample from asteroid Bennu, a cosmic time capsule that may hold clues to the origins of life in our solar system. But the journey was anything but easy.