The tech billionaires could collaborate on a "humanity-saving" moon base in case an asteroid hits Earth, Douglas MacKinnon ...

An asteroid strike could cool the planet's climate, harm crops, and disrupt food supply, but it may also increase plankton ...

Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...

Asteroids, small airless bodies within the inner solar system, are theorized to have contributed water and chemical building blocks of life to Earth billions of years ago. Although meteorites on Earth ...

The building blocks for organic matter have been discovered on the asteroid Bennu, as deatiled in a new study in the journal ...

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...

Bennu’s parent asteroid, which formed around 4.5 billion years ago, seems to have been home to pockets of liquid water.

This image, taken by NASA's Osiris-Rex probe in December 2018, shows the asteroid Bennu. Scientists have identified 14 of the 20 amino acids used by terrestrial life, as well as the five nucleic acid ...

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

Jan. 31 (UPI) -- The European Space Agency is monitoring an asteroid with a slim chance to strike Earth in 2032. Asteroid ...

By Sage Rohrbach A mosaic image of the Bennu Asteriod, created using pictures from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx satellite that was near the asteroid for over two years. Courtesy of NASA via Wikimedia ...

Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.