A Billion-Year-Old Secret Unlocked in Asteroid Bennu’s Dust
Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing asteroid Bennu samples, some of the most pristine ever ...
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Bennu isn't likely to hit Earth - but if it did, here's what would happen
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission reached asteroid 101955 Bennu. Two years later, the spacecraft snagged a sample of its surface, ...
Here’s What Would Happen If Asteroid Bennu Hit Earth
Although the chances of impact are slim, Bennu is still one of the most potentially hazardous known asteroids in our solar ...
NASA reveals results from asteroid Bennu's sample return, hinting at the origins of life
New insights from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission have unveiled intriguing clues about the potential origins of life on Earth. The ...
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The Bennu asteroid reveals clues to how the building blocks of life on Earth may have been seeded
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...
NASA’s Asteroid Bennu Could Cause A Global Catastrophe, Scientists Say
Bennu’s highly unlikely impact with Earth—which could happen in 157 years—could cause a global winter and drought, modeling ...
Near-Earth asteroid Bennu could hit Earth in 157 years and set off a global ‘impact winter,’ study says
Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...
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Scientists predict devastation if asteroid Bennu strikes Earth in 2182
The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every six years at about 186,000 miles away. It might come even closer in the ...
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The Asteroid Bennu Has All the Building Blocks of Life
The asteroid Bennu contains all the materials needed for life. This backs up an old hypothesis that the building blocks of ...
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Surprisingly salty asteroid Bennu contains the building blocks of life
The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were ...
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Asteroid Bennu came from a distant, lost world of salty ponds
Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried ...
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Asteroid ‘Bennu’ Found to Contain More Building Blocks for Life Than Any Sample Ever Found–An Ancient Brine of Multivitamins
Bennu’s parent asteroid, which formed around 4.5 billion years ago, seems to have been home to pockets of liquid water.