Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

The findings suggest Bennu's parent was once home to pockets of liquid water. When these evaporated, they left behind a ...

In other words, Bennu's samples provide further evidence that life's building blocks formed early in the solar system and ...

The find was made by an amateur fossil hunter on the Cliffs of Stevns, which offers “exceptional evidence” of the meteorite impact on Earth about 65 million years ago that brought an end to the era of ...

YR4, which was recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years, may have caused some alarm.

Scientists have analysed samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing components that could be key to understanding how life began ...

The asteroid, designated 2024 YR4, jumped to the top of NASA's risk chart, with a slim but measurable chance of striking ...

The authors also found evidence of w-shaped flood channels using seismic data and developed computer models to simulate how ...