Studying samples from the Bennu asteroid, researchers have found sugars essential for biology, stardust and ... something ...

The space agency has reportedly discovered life-giving essential sugars on the asteroid Bennu, a 500-meter-wide rock hurtling ...

Asteroid Bennu, a dark rubble pile roughly the height of the Empire State Building, has turned out to be a chemical treasure ...

It has been just over two years since NASA’s OSIRIS-REx brought back to Earth 121 grams of precious samples collected from ...

Sugars essential for biology have been discovered in a gum-like substance in fragments from the Bennu space-rock.

Scientists led by Yoshihiro Furukawa of Tohoku University in Japan found sugars essential for biology on Earth in the Bennu ...

On Sunday November 2, people in eastern Victoria witnessed a bright streak across the sky followed by a loud sonic boom that felt like an earthquake. The event was captured by security cameras and ...

Alamosaurus was among the last dinosaurs in southern North America when the asteroid hit. (Image credit: Natalia Jagielska) Some of the last dinosaurs in the world were healthy and thriving right up ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. For generations a massive iron meteorite sat in the Somali desert, becoming a landmark where children played and herders ...

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Those are the ...