The seismic signature of a fireball meteoroid event can be used to tell whether the fireball fragmented or remained intact as ...

New study reveals hidden viral DNA in primates plays key role in gene regulation and evolution through ancient regulatory ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

At the Natural History Museum in London, Professor Sara Russell has been comparing the isotopic "fingerprint" of Earth's water with water found in the asteroid Bennu, captured and brought back by the ...

"Can humanity enjoy the benefits of both asteroid and lunar mining without compromise, or do we have to choose one at the ...

The aerospace giant says it can revive Mars Sample Return with a leaner, lower-cost approach drawing on proven designs.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission traveled to the carbon-rich asteroid Bennu and sent home a small capsule containing a sample in September 2023.

Bennu, captured by the OSIRIS-REx’s MapCam imager on Dec. 17, 2018 as the spacecraft flew under Bennu’s south pole. NASA researchers discovered life’s building blocks in samples retrieved from the ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission to asteroid Bennu launches in six days. Bennu is the Goldilocks of asteroids — not too small, not too far away and made of just the right stuff. Of the more than 500,000 ...

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.

Scientists simulated what would happen if a medium-size asteroid were to strike Earth. One of those space rocks, asteroid Bennu, has a 1-in-2,700 chance of hitting Earth in the year 2182.