Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water world, scientists reported Wednesday. The findings provide the ...

Pristine samples of the asteroid Bennu transported to Earth contain the “basic building blocks” for life, shedding new light ...

Discover how samples from asteroid Bennu reveal that humans and all life on Earth may be made of stardust, supporting the theory of life's cosmic origins.

A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance of smacking Earth in 2032, space agency officials said Wednesday. Scientists put the odds of a strike at slightly more than 1%. “We are not worried at all ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe dropped off samples of asteroid Bennu in 2023, and now those samples have been analyzed by researchers for their contents.