NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission reached asteroid 101955 Bennu. Two years later, the spacecraft snagged a sample of its surface, ...

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

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

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 ...

Although the chances of impact are slim, Bennu is still one of the most potentially hazardous known asteroids in our solar ...

Bennu’s highly unlikely impact with Earth—which could happen in 157 years—could cause a global winter and drought, modeling ...

An asteroid the size of One World Trade Center has a very small chance of crashing into Earth in the year 2182. But what ...

The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were ...

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids ...

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

Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...