Astrophysicists have been grappling with the question of how water arrived on our young planet for decades. One of the ...

Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision. But their proximity also offers ample opportunities to learn more about the ...

A Bennu-type asteroid could lead to “severe environmental consequences,” researchers write, while acknowledging that a ...

We asked experts at NASA and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology what scientists know about the asteroid that could ...

Scientists theorized that the asteroid contained traces of water and organic molecules and that similar asteroids could have brought these materials to a primordial Earth. Bennu’s parent ...

The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...

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Roughly 4.6 billion years ago, the Sun was born from the gas and dust of a nebula that underwent gravitational collapse. The ...

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The asteroid Bennu contains all the materials needed for life. This backs up an old hypothesis that the building blocks of life came to Earth on an asteroid.