There’s certainly nothing living on the asteroid Bennu, an airless, 1,614-ft. rubble pile orbiting the sun about 40.2 million miles from Earth. But that doesn’t mean that Bennu hasn’t all at once ...
An artist's rendering depicts the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft contacting the asteroid Bennu with the Touch-and-Go Sample Arm Mechanism. In samples taken from a distant asteroid, scientists have discovered a ...
Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water world, scientists reported Wednesday.Video above: Scientists discuss ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, according to research that provides some of the best ...