The potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu probably won't hit Earth. But this study shows the damage a space rock of its size ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale of rock, ice and water that hints at how life could have formed on Earth.

Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing asteroid Bennu samples, some of the most pristine ever ...

Analyses of rock and dust samples from the asteroid Bennu collected and brought to Earth by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft show the presence of abundant mineral salts and amino acids revealing unknown ...

Scientists simulated what would happen if a medium-size asteroid were to strike Earth. One of those space rocks, asteroid ...

Bennu contains uracil ... Ceres, a 580-mile-wide dwarf planet in the asteroid belt, still has brine sloshing through its interior. Enceladus, a 310-mile-wide moon of Saturn, has an icy shell ...

plant photosynthesis would decrease by between 20 and 30 percent and the planet's ozone layer would deplete by 32 percent. This undated image made available by NASA shows the asteroid Bennu from ...

The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...

All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...

suggests that similar chemical processes could be occurring today in the subsurface oceans of icy moons and dwarf planets. “Even though asteroid Bennu has no life,” says Timms, “the question ...

Although the chances are slim, scientists estimate that Bennu has a 1-in-2,700 chance of striking our planet. If such an event were to occur, it wouldn't happen until the year 2182, meaning ...

By Carl Zimmer Our solar system contains planets, dwarf planets, asteroids and comets ... Nature on Wednesday that the asteroid, known as Bennu, contains a wealth of organic molecules, including ...