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The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every ...
Although the chances of impact are slim, Bennu is still one of the most potentially hazardous known asteroids in our solar ...
Bennu’s highly unlikely impact with Earth—which could happen in 157 years—could cause a global winter and drought, modeling ...
Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...
Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing asteroid Bennu samples, some of the most pristine ever collected. These fragments date back 4.5 billion years and contain salts, ...
An asteroid the size of One World Trade Center has a very small chance of crashing into Earth in the year 2182. But what ...
The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were ...
Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...
A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
The asteroid Bennu contains all the materials needed for life. This backs up an old hypothesis that the building blocks of ...
This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the ...