The asteroid, named Bennu, passes close to Earth every six years. It is listed as one of NASA’s “potentially hazardous ...

The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

A report published in Science Advances details when the asteroid could collide with Earth and the destruction it would cause.

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 ...

The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were ...

An asteroid impact today could be devastating. But a few billion years ago, an impact may have helped life exist. Scientists ...

Bennu, which comes closest to Earth every six years at a distance of 299,000 km, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with ...

What would happen if a 500-meter asteroid hit Earth? Scientists at the IBS Center for Climate Physics modeled the aftermath, ...

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

Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...