Electron microscope images of a chondrule-like object and CAI in the Ryugu samples. Credit: Tohoku University In June 2018, Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft retrieved samples from asteroid Ryugu and ...

NASA has found sugars essential for life on Earth in samples of the 4.6 billion-year-old Bennu asteroid. Scientists discovered glucose, the human body’s main source of energy, as well as the critical ...

Researchers have found all five of the essential bases that make up DNA and RNA in samples taken from the asteroid Ryugu.

The asteroid has a mean diameter of 1,115 feet and was first discovered on June 19, 2004.

In the early days of earth, it was dangerous, hostile place to be. Luckily, by the time humans came around, things settled down a bit. But in the millions of years before mankind evolved, the earth ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - After a two-year chase, a NASA spacecraft arrived Monday at the ancient asteroid Bennu, its first visitor in billions of years. The robotic explorer Osiris-Rex pulled ...

The impactors that pummeled the Earth and moon nearly 4 billion years ago were primarily asteroids, a new study of lunar rocks collected by Apollo astronauts suggests. During a short stretch of time ...

New research suggests that the origins of life may be tied not only to deep-sea hydrothermal vents but also to environments ...

Asteroid set to pass ‘close’ to Earth - but you have time to prepare - The flyby will be close enough for observers across the Eastern Hemisphere to spot the asteroid without telescopes, marking a rar ...