An asteroid impact today could be devastating. But a few billion years ago, an impact may have helped life exist. Scientists ...

Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids ...

NASA's watchful eye on the skies has recently spotted asteroid Bennu, a celestial body with a slim chance of impacting Earth.

The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every ...

Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...

Although the chances of impact are slim, Bennu is still one of the most potentially hazardous known asteroids in our solar ...

Researchers say the asteroid Bennu has the building blocks for life on it. The samples collected and returned to Earth were ...

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

China’s Tianwen-2 mission is an ambitious asteroid sample return and comet probe mission. Scheduled for launch in May 2025, Tianwen-2 aims to collect samples from a near-Earth asteroid and study a ...

Images of wave ripples on Mars taken by the Curiosity rover. Source: NASA NASA's Curiosity Rover, which has been exploring the Red Planet since 2012, has found evidence of ancient ponds and lakes. The ...