The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists, with samples from the space rock showing weirder properties than they expected. These include extremely high nitrogen levels and improbably magnetic ...

When researchers analyzed fragments from asteroids like Ryugu and Bennu, they uncovered complex organic molecules-some even resembling the building blocks of RNA. This revelation is stunning ...

A capsule carrying precious samples from asteroid Bennu landed on Earth on Sunday. Nasa scientists hope the material could give hints to how life here began. BBC Science editor Rebecca Morelle ...

Bennu, one of the largest asteroids, has been the subject of research and simulations in the event of an impact with our planet. Bennu is 500 meters wide and astronomers have predicted a one in ...

FILE PHOTO: The return capsule containing a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is seen shortly after touching down in the desert at the ...

TASS/. Samples of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu revealed minerals and molecules that are key to life on Earth, NASA said. The analysis of the samples delivered by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has delivered groundbreaking insights into the origins of life, thanks to pristine samples collected from the asteroid Bennu. The findings, published in Nature ...

Bennu’s potential collision with Earth is a remote but unsettling possibility, according to a new study. Bennu is about 500 metres wide—taller than the Empire State Building and as wide as ...

In 2016, NASA embarked on a new and unique mission: sending the Osiris-REx spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid Bennu to study the rocky space object and collect samples to return to ...

Here are five asteroids that pose the greatest risk to Earth. Discovered in 1999, asteroid Bennu currently poses the greatest risk to Earth. Though the chance of impact is only 0.037% (1 in 2,700 ...