A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

The discovery is a capstone achievement for NASA, which went to great lengths to secure and deliver asteroid samples from ...

NASA has unveiled discoveries made from examining samples taken from the asteroid Bennu, which shed light on how widely the ...

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 scientists also found tiny crystals of rare salt minerals called halite and sylvite within Bennu's dust particles. These ...