"I'm becoming much more optimistic that we may be able to find life beyond Earth, even in our own solar system." ...

The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists' biggest questions about the formation of the early solar ...

Elisha Sauers writes about space for Mashable, taking deep dives into NASA's moon and Mars missions, chatting up astronauts and history-making discoverers, and jetting above the c ...

Bennu asteroid samples returned by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission reveal life's building blocks, including sugars like ribose and ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission continues to offer stunning revelations about the early solar system, with the latest study ...

Scientists led by Yoshihiro Furukawa of Tohoku University in Japan found sugars essential for biology on Earth in the Bennu ...

Samples retrieved from asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission in September 2023 have yielded a surprising treasure trove ...

As per the official reports, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission first collected samples from asteroid Bennu in 2020.

The asteroid, known as 2022 RD2, belongs to a rare class of space rocks called Arjunas. These objects travel around the sun ...

On March 21, 2021, an object the size of the Empire State Building—traveling at 77,000 miles per hour—passed within 1.25 ...

Asteroid 2025 VP1 is hurtling through space at more than 18,300 miles per hour, the space agency has reported.

In 2025, NASA faced unprecedented uncertainty as it grappled with sweeping layoffs, looming budget cuts, and leadership ...