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

Its contents: 122 grams of dust and rock from asteroid Bennu ... Frank Brenker from Goethe University Frankfurt. They examined barely visible grains of Bennu using the transmission electron ...

Studies of rocks and dust collected from Bennu, an asteroid orbiting Earth, have revealed clues about how life may have first formed on Earth. A NASA mission collected the sample and brought it ...

Bennu’s potential collision with Earth is a remote but unsettling possibility, according to a new study. Bennu is about 500 metres wide—taller than the Empire State Building and as wide as ...

Computer simulation tests have therefore been carried out at the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) at Pusan National University in South Korea. The results have not been encouraging. If Bennu ...

The asteroid Bennu has been at the centre of scientific discussions recently, especially after researchers analysed surface samples collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. While much of the ...

New simulations reveal that the climate, atmospheric chemistry and even global photosynthesis would be dramatically disrupted by an asteroid collision ...

The University of Manchester received part of the sample from asteroid Bennu to support the international analysis effort. In this latest piece of research, Rhian Jones, Professor of Cosmochemistry at ...

(AP) — Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only ... Sixty labs around the world are analyzing bits of Bennu as part of initial studies, said the University of Arizona’s Dante Lauretta, the ...

“Even though asteroid Bennu has no life, the question is could other icy bodies harbor life?” said Nick Timms of Curtin University. While the findings don’t confirm extraterrestrial ...