Bennu is believed to have originated from the shards of a much larger world. Curiously, asteroid Ryugu, sampled by the ...

“Our findings expand the evidence that prebiotic organic molecules can form within primitive accreting planetary bodies and ...

An Indiana University of Pennsylvania professor is part of a group of authors whose recent book explores the Bennu asteroid, which scientists believe is a sort of “time capsule” from the dawn of the ...

Arizona’s top man on NASA’s asteroid sampling mission has teamed up with actual rock ’n’ roll royalty to write the book on Bennu. Set for release on Thursday, “Bennu 3-D: Anatomy of an Asteroid” uses ...

A bright fireball streaked across the sky above mountains, glaciers and spruce forest near the town of Revelstoke in British Columbia, Canada, on the evening of March 31, 1965. Fragments of this ...

When OSIRIS-REx swings past Earth next week to drop off its priceless samples from asteroid Bennu, no one will be more relieved than Dante Lauretta. The University of Arizona professor has been ...

The prize? A signed copy of a new book about asteroid Bennu co-authored by May and NASA OSIRIS-REx chief scientist Dante Lauretta. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Samples of matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building blocks of life to Earth, scientists report in a pair of new studies published ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — New results from OSIRIS-REx, NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission, reveals why some gray asteroids reflect light at different wavelengths, like red or blue, more strongly ...

Planetary scientist Dante Lauretta spent the last two decades pitching, preparing, and pondering a mission unlike one he or NASA had ever tried: OSIRIS-REx, the space agency’s first attempt at ...

NASA has successfully collected samples from the asteroid Bennu, after a capsule containing around 250 grams of the space rock touched down in the desert near Salt Lake City, Utah on Sunday.