An asteroid the size of One World Trade Center has a very small chance of crashing into Earth in the year 2182. But what ...

Scientists have found all five nucleobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...

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If the near-Earth asteroid Bennu were to collide with Earth in the future, the space rock could cause substantial global damage, even though it’s a fraction of the size of the asteroid that ...

Analysis of samples taken from the asteroid Bennu reveal the presence of organic compounds important for life, and that its parent asteroid probably contained salty, subsurface water. Collected by ...

This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 images taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from ... [+] a range of 15 miles. As wide as The Eiffel Tower is tall, the asteroid Bennu is a ...

Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Researchers have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in unprecedented samples ...

NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces) of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert in 2023 before swooping off ...

Fragments of the asteroid Bennu, carefully collected and ferried to Earth by a robotic spacecraft, contain the building blocks for life, NASA announced today. NASA ‘fist bumps’ an asteroid to ...