Tiny pieces of rock and dust from the object known as Bennu come to British labs for study.

Scientists are preparing to decipher the ancient cosmic secrets preserved within the rocky extraterrestrial grains.

The unremarkable black dust-like sample from asteroid Bennu could help shed light on some of the biggest questions about how ...

Fragments from an asteroid described by Nasa as the most dangerous rock in the Solar System are being studied in the UK. The ...

Scientists want to 'disentangle the story of Bennu' and possibly learn more about the origins of the solar system and the ...

The first asteroid sample collected in space and brought to Earth by the United States will be unveiled at NASA’s Johnson ...

Scientists are hopeful that fragments from a 4.5-billion-year-old space rock will reveal the origins of our existence.

A recent NASA mission successfully returned samples from the asteroid Bennu, marking the first time a US spacecraft has ...

British scientists have been given a teaspoon-sized sample of dust from the Bennu asteroid that could reveal the secrets to ...

Asteroid Phaethon, which is five kilometers in diameter, has been puzzling researchers for a long time. A comet-like tail is ...

NASA has officially paused the Mars Sample Return mission and will need to come up with new solutions to get it back on track ...

Following a public unveiling of the United States’ first asteroid sample at 11 a.m. EDT Wednesday, Oct. 11, NASA will host a media teleconference ...