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

and some of the fragments came together to form the rubble pile we know as Bennu. These minerals are also found on icy bodies in the outer solar system. Bright deposits on the dwarf planet Ceres, the ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

including the dwarf planet Ceres and Saturn's moon Enceladus, as well as other asteroids. They plan to reexamine specimens already on Earth for traces of compounds that previous research might have ...

These minerals formed on Bennu’s parent body through the evaporation ... lakes on Earth and subsurface oceans on icy moons and dwarf planets of the outer solar system, including Saturn’s ...

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 ...