All the essential ingredients to kick-start life as we know it have now been found in samples from the asteroid Bennu. This shows that asteroids could have delivered all the prerequisites for life to ...

The discovery and swift monitoring of asteroid 2024 YR4 earlier this year represented Earth's first real-life planetary defense test. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

A view of one of the containers holding rocks and dust from asteroid Bennu.NASA Johnson Space Center / Erika Blumenfeld and Joseph Aebersold Laboratory analysis has confirmed the presence of the ...

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 every six ...

The number 40,000 might not sound particularly dramatic, but it represents humanity's growing catalog of near-Earth asteroids, rocky remnants from the solar system's violent birth that cross paths ...

Astronomers have just logged the 40,000th near-Earth asteroid, a major marker in humanity’s effort to keep track of the rocks that pass close to our planet. These objects range from a few yards across ...