Tom Zega, a University of Arizona scientist who's worked on samples brought back from the asteroid Bennu, tells The Show more ...

Our solar system is filled with rocky debris tumbling around the sun, most of which is the same age, but the asteroid Bennu ...

LONDON (APTN/CBS Newspath/WKRC) - Scientists have discovered particles older than our solar system in a sample from the asteroid Bennu, brought back to Earth by NASA's OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft. The ...

A pristine asteroid sample that could serve as a time capsule from the early days of our solar system has finally been revealed. The rocks and dust contain water and a large amount of carbon, said ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is closing in on the asteroid Bennu after more than two years of flight and is sending home some incredible travel photographs. This week, “super resolution” images of the ...

Asteroid Bennu—the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample return mission, led by the University of Arizona—is a mixture of materials from throughout, and even beyond, our solar system. Over the past few ...

When NASA’s only major concerns for the OSIRIS-REx launch on Thursday are some fluffy white clouds, you know the mission is in good shape. The mission, led by the University of Arizona’s Lunar and ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. While the odds of Bennu impacting Earth may sound alarming, they're not entirely unexpected. "On ...