Chile's dark skies, vital for astronomy, face threats from urban development. The asteroid Bennu could pose a future risk to ...

The Bennu samples from NASA were handled under nitrogen to prevent contamination by Earth's atmosphere. A 17.75 mg sample was ...

SpaceX is scheduled to launch its Maxar 3 mission, with two high-resolution commercial satellites on board, from the Kennedy ...

Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.

Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building ...

Credit: NASA The Bennu samples from NASA were handled under ... with a ring structure containing carbon and nitrogen—using high-resolution mass spectrometry at Kyushu University.

Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced ...

It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but ...

The asteroid Bennu contains all the materials needed for life. This backs up an old hypothesis that the building blocks of ...