Among the millions of rocks tumbling through the inner solar system, one small carbon-rich asteroid gets more attention from planetary defense scientists than almost any other. Bennu, a roughly ...

Bennu is tracked so carefully not because a collision is likely, but because precise spacecraft measurements make even a tiny long-term possibility worth quantifying. NASA’s best-known single-date ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pristine samples from asteroid Bennu reveal amino acids and DNA building blocks, pointing to ...

Did the ingredients for life as we know it exist in the early solar system? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to address as a team of ...

Our solar system is filled with rocky debris tumbling around the sun, most of which is the same age, but sometimes you find ...

In one of the biggest surprises of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, its target asteroid, Bennu, turned out to be a jagged, rugged world covered in large boulders, with few of the smooth patches that earlier ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The good news is that scientists have a better handle on asteroid Bennu’s whereabouts for the next 200 years. The bad news is that the space rock has a slightly greater ...

Researchers discovered sugars essential for biology, including glucose, in the asteroid material for the first time. A strange, pliable substance nicknamed "space gum" was also found, which could have ...

Talk about a sugar rush! NASA may have just come a little closer to cracking one of science’s most enduring mysteries — how life on Earth got started. The space agency has reportedly discovered ...

The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists' biggest questions about the formation of the early solar system and the origins of life. As part of the ongoing study of pristine ...

NASA revealed that scientists discovered sugars that are “essential” to life and a “gum-like” substance on the space rock Bennu NASA/Goddard/University of ...

Some of the oldest objects in the solar system still drift above your head. Asteroids and comets formed before Earth took shape, and they carry a record of a chemical world that existed long before ...