Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing asteroid Bennu samples, some of the most pristine ever ...

Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

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The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every ...

The potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu probably won't hit Earth. But this study shows the damage a space rock of its size ...

YR4 has a 1-in-43 chance of impact in 2032 The 55-metre rock could cause city-wide destruction NASA continues monitoring for updates on impact risk ...

REx mission returned from space 60 years later with a sample from an asteroid called Bennu, similar to the one that rained rocks on Revelstoke and continues to provid ...

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with Earth, a study has ...

By Sage Rohrbach A mosaic image of the Bennu Asteriod, created using pictures from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx satellite that was near the asteroid for over two years. Courtesy of NASA via Wikimedia ...

However, Bennu, a 500-metre wide lump of rock, has been located by the boffins and their telescopes and they’ve given it a 1 ...

YR4 has just above a 1% chance of crashing into Earth in 2032, which is why astronomers and space agencies are paying attention to it.

On 20 October, 2020, a robot spacecraft took a sample of surface dust from asteroid Bennu. On 4 September, 2023, as it passed ...