In a new Nature Communications study, researchers developed a universal scaling framework for the strength of granular ...

Bennu is tracked so carefully not because a collision is likely, but because precise spacecraft measurements make even a tiny ...

Among the thousands of near-Earth objects that space agencies track, one small, dark asteroid stands out for how closely it ...

Smithsonian researchers analyzed fragments of the near-Earth asteroid and discovered water-rich clays that hint at a distant origin Jack Tamisiea A view of the outside of the OSIRIS-REx sample ...

“This is the kind of finding you hope you’re going to make on a mission.” – Tim McCoy, curator of meteorites at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and lead author on a new paper ...

New research backs up the old hypothesis that the key ingredients for life may have come to Earth on an asteroid billions of years ago. A modern case in point: The asteroid Bennu contains all the ...

Penn State researchers think a key ingredient for life may have formed in deep freeze, not in a warm asteroid puddle. Scientists at Penn State; led by geoscientist Allison Baczynski and postdoctoral ...

Asteroid Bennu—the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample return mission, led by the University of Arizona—is a mixture of materials from throughout, and even beyond, our solar system. Over the past few ...

This photo of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 Polycam images collected on Dec. 2, 2024, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. NASA A bright fireball streaked across the sky above mountains, glaciers and ...

Scientists with NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission, OSIRIS-REx, are gaining a new understanding of asteroid Bennu’s carbon-rich material and signature “spinning-top” shape. The team, led by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Penn State scientists say Bennu's glycine may have formed in frozen, irradiated ice, not warm ...