Mass destruction from Manhattan to Connecticut and beyond. This is what would happen if an asteroid smashed into New York. Produced By Matt Johnston. Follow BI Video: On Facebook More from Science ...

The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists ... We'll also keep you up to date with New Scientist events and special offers. The anus may have evolved from a hole originally used to release sperm ...

“We have higher ammonia abundances and isotopically different nitrogen in the Bennu samples than compared to other astromaterials, meteorite samples or [Asteroid] Ryugu samples,” Barnes sai ...

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 asteroid material "included waterlogged clay minerals", said The New York Times. This "could help solve how Earth became a water planet" as asteroids similar to Bennu "may have crashed into ...

About 66 million years ago, a city-sized asteroid struck Earth ... Discovered in 1999, asteroid Bennu currently poses the greatest risk to Earth. Though the chance of impact is only 0.037% ...

TASS/. Samples of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu revealed minerals and molecules that are key to life on Earth, NASA said. The analysis of the samples delivered by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins ...