Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar ...

Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient world slept only 6.5 hours a night.

Asteroid Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old space rock, may hold clues to Earth's origins. With traces of water, amino acids, and ...

Analysis of samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu reveal that it has a bizarre chemical make-up and is unusually magnetic ...

Learn about the projects that hope to acquire rare metals from space by mining asteroids, creating a budding industry with ...

Smithsonian and NASA scientists set out to collect an asteroid sample that may hold clues to the origins of life in our solar system.

New simulations reveal that the climate, atmospheric chemistry and even global photosynthesis would be dramatically disrupted ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University Belfast and a member of one of Nasa's sky surveys that searches and tracks ...

But real lightning would have struck infrequently—and mostly in open ocean, where organic compounds would have quickly ...