Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing asteroid Bennu samples, some of the most pristine ever ...

Scientists have long wondered how prevalent these precursors were at the birth of our solar system. A sample of dust and rocks from an asteroid just took us closer to an answer. Collected from Bennu, ...

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

Searles Lake has long been shaped by shifting water levels, volcanic minerals, and evaporite formation. In 2024, satellites ...

Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

Analyses conducted on Bennu's samples show an impressive diversity of organic and mineral compounds. These elements, essential for life, suggest that conditions conducive to its emergence were ...

Are we extraterrestrial? Something was recently discovered by NASA on a near-Earth asteroid. They are Organic Molecules On ...

REx mission returned from space 60 years later with a sample from an asteroid called Bennu, similar to the one that rained rocks on Revelstoke and continues to provid ...

Asteroid Bennu’s samples contain pristine salts, hinting at ancient briny environments that could have formed organic ...