Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...
Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...
Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.
A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...
New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...
All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...
A local fossil hunter found animal vomit at a Danish geological site that is believed to be 66 million years old.
On December 25, a meteorite passed Minsk and fell near the town of Smalyavichy. The planetarium staff calculated the ...
This week, meet a big-brained ancient human relative, hear a meteorite as it lands on Earth, spot a tiny kangaroo-like ...
From the gravity-defying Magnetic Hill of Ladakh to the enchanting Floating Islands of Manipur, these extraordinary places ...