Among the millions of rocks tumbling through the inner solar system, one small carbon-rich asteroid gets more attention from planetary defense scientists than almost any other. Bennu, a roughly ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission revealed that asteroid Bennu is composed of a loose conglomerate of rocks, often referred to as a ...

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In one of the biggest surprises of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, its target asteroid, Bennu, turned out to be a jagged, rugged world covered in large boulders, with few of the smooth patches that earlier ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The good news is that scientists have a better handle on asteroid Bennu’s whereabouts for the next 200 years. The bad news is that the space rock has a slightly greater ...

Our solar system is filled with rocky debris tumbling around the sun, most of which is the same age, but sometimes you find ...

Learn how nanoscale scans of Bennu reveal a diverse chemical landscape shaped by ancient water, and reshaping our understanding of early Solar System processes. Asteroid Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some of the oldest objects in the solar system still drift above your head. Asteroids and comets formed before Earth took shape, and they carry a record of a chemical world that existed long before ...