NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Japanese researchers have discovered salt minerals on the asteroid Ryugu, suggesting that liquid water may have once been ...

Deposits Found on a Nearby Asteroid Point to Salty Water in the Outer Solar System Scientists have uncovered salt minerals in ...

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

A Bennu-type asteroid could lead to “severe environmental consequences,” researchers write, while acknowledging that a ...

Earth could face catastrophic consequences if hit by an asteroid similar to Bennu, according to new computer simulations.

Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision.