REx brought back to Earth 121 grams of material from asteroid Bennu. This is the largest sample ever collected and brought ...

Earth is home to some truly bizarre and breathtaking landscapes — here are 20 that look straight out of an alien world.

"The detection of these key building blocks of life in the Bennu samples supports the theory that asteroids and their fragments seeded the early Earth with the raw ingredients that led to the ...

Study indicates that Bennu’s parent asteroid developed or accumulated material from a reservoir in the outer solar system ...

Scientists analysing samples from asteroid Bennu, delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission , have revealed new ...

The study highlights the urgent need to safeguard global tropical wetlands from human impact. Complex organisms, thousands of ...

The Bennu discovery helps to illuminate how, early in the Solar System’s history, asteroids and other planetary building blocks were not just “lumps of stone and ice, but active ‘living’ objects”, ...

The world's largest living organism is slowing being eaten alive after living on Earth for thousands of years. The Pando is a ...

Discoveries of clay minerals in Martian mounds by researchers indicate that Mars once had large bodies of water billions of ...

About 99% of Earth is uninhabitable; in deep underground places with high pressure and temperature, even the toughest ...