Beyond the immediate impact damage, an asteroid impact would have long-lasting effects on Earth's atmosphere. What would ...

Bennu is a relatively small near-Earth asteroid that makes a close pass to Earth every six years or so. Scientists believe the space rock may have ... step in proving out our ability to defend ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe ... will have its work cut out for it as it does its best to avoid the many jagged rocks we see here. “These two OpNav images of Bennu’s southern hemisphere ...

(WBAY) - NASA announced more findings from the soil samples that collected by OSIRIS-REx from the asteroid Bennu in 2021 ... they found 14 out of 20 key building blocks for life -- at least ...

Small amounts of Bennu’s precious black grains — leftovers from the solar system's formation 4.5 billion years ago — were doled out ... asteroid that got clobbered by other space rocks.

to reach Bennu. Once there, the spacecraft orbited the asteroid for nearly two years as flight engineers searched for a landing site. Upon making contact with the space rock, OSIRIS-REx fired a ...

Small amounts of Bennu’s precious black grains — leftovers from the solar system's formation 4.5 billion years ago — were doled out ... asteroid that got clobbered by other space rocks.