Tom Zega, a University of Arizona scientist who's worked on samples brought back from the asteroid Bennu, tells The Show more ...

One of the studies, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, shows that ice inside the parent asteroid melted and reacted ...

Bennu and Ryugu were two of the most famous asteroids in the solar system, and new data found a connection between them. Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) reviewed data from near-Earth asteroids ...

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 ...

New data from the James Webb telescope suggests that Bennu and Ryugu — two asteroids recently visited by sample-return missions — are both fragments of a single massive "parent." ...

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 of them on an asteroid millions of miles away. The asteroid in question, ...

With the return of an Asteroid Bennu sample in 2023 as part of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, researchers from the University of Arizona have made significant discoveries toward understanding the origins ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet and the solar system seem like a lot to fit in 4 ...

Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried over thousands of years and life’s basic ingredients were widespread.

A bright fireball streaked across the sky above mountains, glaciers and spruce forest near the town of Revelstoke in British Columbia, Canada, on the evening of March 31, 1965. Fragments of this ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Several space missions have flown by asteroids before and gotten a peek at their ...