In his inauguration speech in January, United States President Donald Trump declared the US would "plant the stars and stripes on the planet ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission uncovered a cosmic connection between asteroid Bennu and Earth’s Searles Lake. Both contain minerals formed by evaporating salty water, hinting that Bennu’s parent body once ...

The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...

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

Scientists from NASA and other institutions reported the findings of the first in-depth analysis of the minerals and ...

NASA’s Bennu asteroid sample reveals important chemical molecules and minerals, offering new information about the ...

Pristine samples of the asteroid Bennu transported to Earth contain the "basic building blocks" for life, shedding new light on the perennial question of how life began on our planet.

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid ...

It's an eggshell white, conical probe named SPHEREx, which (get ready for a mouthful ... "Shout out to our team at OSIRIS-REx in the Planetary Division," Domagal-Goldman said. "They pick up that story ...

Scientists have discovered traces of organic compounds in asteroid samples brought back by NASA, a finding that could suggest essential building blocks of life were distributed throughout the solar ...