Bennu’s highly unlikely impact with Earth—which could happen in 157 years—could cause a global winter and drought, modeling ...
Was 2020’s ‘Don’t Look Up’ accurate? Find out what NASA revealed about an asteroid that will approach Earth in 2032.
NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.
The discovery is a capstone achievement for NASA, which went to great lengths to secure and deliver asteroid samples from ...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission uncovered a cosmic connection between asteroid Bennu and Earth’s Searles Lake. Both contain minerals formed by evaporating salty water, hinting that Bennu’s parent body once ...
Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five ...
Although the chances of impact are slim, Bennu is still one of the most potentially hazardous known asteroids in our solar ...
It was initially believed the asteroid, first detected on December 27, had about a 1 percent chance of colliding with Earth, but by Thursday, that chance had risen to 2.3 percent. On Wednesday, NASA ...
FILE PHOTO: The return capsule containing a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA's OSIRIS-REx ...
An international team of scientists has released some of their discoveries about the samples collected by the NASA spacecraft ...
In samples NASA brought back from the asteroid Bennu, scientists have discovered of organic compounds, including key building ...
Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...