NASA’s study of Bennu reveals why its rocky surface behaves like sand. The answer lies in cracks deep inside its boulders.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Penn State scientists say Bennu’s glycine may have formed in frozen, irradiated ice, not warm ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Samples taken from the asteroid Bennu are continuing to shed light on the origins of the solar system. Scientists have been ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Scientists say they are studying a surprise from space. NASA recently released scans of the Bennu Asteroid from the agency's Osiris-Rex Mission. Using older Earth scans and ...

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 ...

Tiny bits of asteroid Bennu that landed in Houston are doing a lot more than sitting in a display case. Scientists at NASA’s Johnson Space Center say the fragments have finally solved a years long ...

Samples taken from the asteroid Bennu are continuing to shed light on the origins of the solar system. Scientists have been studying the samples since NASA's Osiris-REx spacecraft carried them back to ...

Penn State researchers think a key ingredient for life may have formed in deep freeze, not in a warm asteroid puddle. Scientists at Penn State; led by geoscientist Allison Baczynski and postdoctoral ...