There’s certainly nothing living on the asteroid Bennu, an airless, 1,614-ft. rubble pile orbiting the sun about 40.2 million miles from Earth. But that doesn’t mean that Bennu hasn’t all at once ...

Penn State researchers think a key ingredient for life may have formed in deep freeze, not in a warm asteroid puddle. A space sample with a new twistScientists at Penn State; led by geoscientist ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — It’s been a real point of pride that the University of Arizona led a mission to grab a sample of an asteroid and bring it to Earth. Now those samples are teaching us more about ...

A small, round piece of asteroid Ryugu (sample #91), called “S-lunar,” contains tiny particles (less than 1 mm) that will allow planetary scientists to study the magnetic signature of the early solar ...

The asteroid Bennu is full of surprises that keep on coming, each one helping scientists close in on answers to the origins of life. The latest inspections of Bennu's samples reveal that the asteroid ...

It’s been hypothesized for decades that life on Earth may not have been as “homegrown” as one might think and now, we’re looking above and hundreds of thousands of miles out for more answers. An ...

The first grains of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu are turning out to be far richer than many scientists dared hope, packed with organic molecules that speak directly to how life may have first ...

(CNN) — Tryptophan, the essential amino acid behind the Thanksgiving myth that eating turkey can make you sleepy, has been found to exist on Bennu, a small asteroid that swings by our planet about ...

A long-running debate about the Silverpit Crater beneath the North Sea has finally been resolved. Scientists now confirm it formed when a roughly 160-meter asteroid struck the seabed about 43–46 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Penn State scientists say Bennu’s glycine may have formed in frozen, irradiated ice, not warm ...

NASA's asteroid sample has revealed new chemical evidence that scientists say sharpens the picture of how the solar system formed and how the ingredients for life spread through space. Three studies ...