On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

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A team of scientists discovered that the near-Earth asteroid, known as Bennu, contains a wealth of minerals and organic molecules, including many that are building blocks of life. But what has the 4.5 ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-metre-wide asteroid 320 ...

In other words, Bennu's samples provide further evidence that life's building blocks formed early in the solar system and ...

In 2029, one of the solar system's many asteroids will pass Earth close enough to see with the naked eye. But asteroid ...

Analyses of rock and dust samples from the asteroid Bennu collected and brought to Earth by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft show ...

Today on CNN 10, we get an update out of Syria as a new government takes shape after the overthrow of an autocratic regime. We also take a look at groundbreaking new findings from asteroid samples ...

Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.