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

It's been a long, long time since Earth has been smacked by a large asteroid, but that doesn't mean we're in the clear. Space ...

Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building ...

“We have discovered that next step on a pathway to life ... understanding of what ingredients in our solar system existed ...

Bennu’s parent asteroid, which formed around 4.5 billion years ago, seems to have been home to pockets of liquid water.

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

Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids.

Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced ...

Photo / 123rf Pristine samples of the asteroid Bennu transported to Earth contain the “basic building blocks ... “We have discovered that next step on a pathway to life,” he said in a press release ...

“We have discovered that next step on a pathway to life ... In 2018, the OSIRIS-REx mission arrived at the near-Earth asteroid Bennu to collect pristine samples, untouched by alterations ...

“We have discovered that next step on a pathway to life ... in our solar system existed before life started on Earth.” Bennu might not be the only extraterrestrial entity that contains ...

Scientists have analysed samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing components that could be key to understanding how life began ...