NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar ...
Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The ...
Learn about the projects that hope to acquire rare metals from space by mining asteroids, creating a budding industry with ...
Seeing the invisible, that’s what a small group of scientists at Los Alamos National Labs are trying to do with data recovered from a near-Earth asteroid and ...
Asteroid Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old space rock, may hold clues to Earth's origins. With traces of water, amino acids, and ...
A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...
"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our ...
"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...
But real lightning would have struck infrequently—and mostly in open ocean, where organic compounds would have quickly ...
New simulations reveal that the climate, atmospheric chemistry and even global photosynthesis would be dramatically disrupted ...