Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...
Asteroids have struck Earth occasionally over its long history, often with cataclysmic results. An asteroid estimated at 6-9 ...
An asteroid the size of One World Trade Center has a very small chance of crashing into Earth in the year 2182. But what ...
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 ...
Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids ...
Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...
A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
One of those is asteroid Bennu, the recent lucky target of an asteroid sample collection mission. In a mere 157 years – September of 2182 CE, to be precise – it has a chance of colliding with Earth.
It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it ...