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

In 2016, NASA embarked on a new and unique mission: sending the Osiris-REx spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid Bennu to study the rocky space object and collect samples to return to ...

the model showed. The researchers said that these algae could offer an alternative to food production on land, but the algae ...

Analysis of samples taken from the asteroid Bennu reveal the presence of organic ... and many questions remain about their lives. A new AI model from a Chinese company, DeepSeek, rivals the ...

Planetary scientists have discovered organic matter essential to life in dust and rock retrieved from an asteroid known as Bennu. The finding supports the theory that near-Earth asteroids ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission successfully returned a generous chunk of the asteroid Bennu to Earth in 2023, and scientists have been analyzing it ever since. International scientific teams have ...

While some are left to worry about Bennu's low probability of impact, the IBS researchers used advanced climate models and the supercomputer Aleph to figure out what would happen after.

Samples of matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building blocks of life to Earth, scientists report in a pair of new studies published ...