Bits of rock and dust brought back from the distant asteroid Bennu contain some of the chemical building blocks of life, NASA announced Wednesday, a discovery that strengthens the theory that ...

Languages: English. Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with the Earth in September 2182, new research has discovered. The IBS Center ...

The asteroid Bennu is a scientific gem ... it looked like a bouldery pile of rubble with that same kind of characteristic texture," Dante Lauretta, the OSIRIS-REx principal investigator at ...

NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces) of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert in 2023 before swooping off ...

A group of researchers based in South Korea drew up scenarios indicating how Earth’s climate and life on our planet would be affected by the impact of a medium-sized asteroid like Bennu.

Asteroid Bennu is much stranger than researchers previously thought. When the OSIRIS-REx probe arrived at asteroid Bennu, it found a body that looked and behaved quite differently from what ...

And it could make even bigger news next century. Potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid Bennu, the subject of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission that's set to return to to Earth Sunday morning ...

There is a 1 in 2,700 chance the Bennu asteroid could hit Earth by 2182. An asteroid NASA's been tracking for nearly 25 years could impact Earth in the future, a new report reveals. First ...

A team of researchers reported in the journal Nature on Wednesday that the asteroid, known as Bennu, contains a wealth of organic molecules, including many crucial building blocks of life.

The mission saw a small spacecraft interact with the asteroid Bennu, which some people say could collide with Earth on September 24, 2182. But just how likely is that? Previous predictions said ...