The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...

The scientists also found tiny crystals of rare salt minerals called halite and sylvite within Bennu's dust particles. These ...

Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient ...

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned the samples from Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, in 2023. It's the biggest cosmic haul ...

Scientists from the Universities of Oxford and Birmingham have discovered a vast quarry floor covered with hundreds of ...

Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...

This photo of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 Polycam images collected on Dec. 2, 2024, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. NASA A ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

I n a groundbreaking study, researchers have uncovered a hidden network of “metal highways” beneath the Earth’s ancient continental cores. These geological formations, shaped over millions ...

Most ancient known trees on Earth. Credit: Evelyn Simak / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 2.0 When the Great Pyramid of Giza was being constructed and Julius Caesar was rising to power, there existed ...

Connecting those lake regions to ancient hotspots might reveal the way these mantle phenomena have shaped Earth's continents. Stephanie Pappas is a contributing writer for Live Science ...