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 ...

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

A team of researchers have now modelled what will happen to the planet, climate and humans if this asteroid crashes on Earth ...

Searles Lake has long been shaped by shifting water levels, volcanic minerals, and evaporite formation. In 2024, satellites ...

This photo of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 Polycam images collected on Dec. 2, 2024, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. NASA A ...

A scoop of dust from an ancient time capsule hurtling through space has forced a rethink of how inert matter became all that ...

With the OSIRIS-REx space probe, the NASA space agency succeeded in collecting some material from the surface of asteroid Bennu, which arrived on ...

Scientists drilled the deepest hole in human history to uncover the mysteries beneath Earth’s surface. What they found shocked the world—from unexpected temperatures to strange geological formations.

The probe had collected this sample from the surface of the 500-metre agglomerate ... type corresponded to the material from the asteroid Bennu. Photo: Uwe Dettmar for Goethe University.

(Photo: Keegan Barber ... the ancestral asteroid Bennu broke away from had "pockets or veins of fluid, perhaps only a few feet wide under the surface," McCoy said. "Within those cracks evaporation ...