The building blocks for organic matter have been discovered on the asteroid Bennu, as deatiled in a new study in the journal ...

Scientists from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) say they have spotted an asteroid that could smash ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx brought back to Earth 121 grams of material from asteroid Bennu. This is the largest sample ever collected ...

NASA’s Bennu asteroid sample provides fresh insights into the potential for life beyond Earth, revealing key organic compounds and minerals.

Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...

Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

Bennu contains minerals and thousands of organic molecules, including the chemical components that make up DNA.

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

Scientists have analysed samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing components that could be key to understanding how life began ...

A recently discovered asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Designated 2024 YR4, it caught astronomers' eyes ...

Researchers say there’s a 1.3 percent chance that the space rock 2024 YR4 could strike our planet — but not until December ...