“Data from OSIRIS-REx adds major brushstrokes to a picture of a solar system teeming with the potential for life,” Jason ...

Bennu is a near-Earth object (and actually the one most likely to hit Earth) but it must have formed in the colder regions of ...

Some 4.5 billion years ago, a monster asteroid around 60 miles wide formed in the outer reaches of the Solar System—beyond the orbit of Jupiter. Around one to two billion years ago, this mega ...

Researchers believe this 4.6-billion-year-old piece of rock could reveal compounds present at the beginning of the solar ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar system. These findings can now provide information into the potential ...

Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried over thousands of years and life’s basic ingredients were widespread.

One proposed way of examining if such a force could exist is by closely monitoring asteroid trajectories, and few near-Earth ...

NASA’s findings from asteroid Bennu suggest solar system could be ‘teeming with the potential for life’ By Andrea Leinfelder , Staff writer Jan 29, 2025 ...

The rocks collected from Bennu represent a time capsule from the early days of the solar system dating back more than 4.5 billion years. Rocks and dust were collected from asteroid Bennu and ...

From an orbit of over 186,000 miles from Earth, to Utah’s Great Salt Lake Desert, to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, to College Hill: That’s the path that samples from the asteroid Bennu, ...

“The solar system is really like somebody picked it up early on and shook it real hard,” Levison says. After launching this October, Lucy will fly by a series of target Trojans from 2027 to 2033.