Analysis of samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu reveal that it has a bizarre chemical make-up and is ...

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

Scientists analyzing samples from asteroid Bennu have found something remarkable ... returned in an air-tight container and never subject to the ravages of Earth. "Discovery of diverse salts ...

A similar asteroid that arrived on Earth as a meteorite ... hydrated sodium carbonate salts highlighted in purple. The Bennu sample container. Credit: NASA "We're seeing minerals in Bennu samples ...

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 for Climate Physics ...

The 120 g of material came from the near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu, which OSIRIS-REx visited in 2020. The findings “bolster the hypothesis that asteroids like Bennu could have delivered the raw ...

Overall, they write, a Bennu-type asteroid could lead to “severe environmental consequences,” reducing land photosynthesis by 36 percent and marine photosynthesis by 25 percent. That would in ...

(THE CONVERSATION) A bright fireball streaked across the sky above mountains, glaciers and spruce forest near the town of Revelstoke in British Columbia, Canada, on the evening of March 31, 1965.

NASA spacecraft touched down on the rugged surface of the Bennu asteroid on Tuesday, grabbing a sample of rocks dating back to the birth of our solar system to bring home. The minivan-sized OSIRIS ...

The study "Climatic and ecological responses to Bennu-type asteroid collisions" was published in the journal Science Advances on Feb. 5. 'We're disappointed in the outcome': NASA shares photo of ...