Bennu is believed to be an object that has existed since the formation of the solar system, and identifying the organic compounds that make up Bennu is thought to help understand the processes ...
Interplanetary contamination risks from space missions and strategies to mitigate them, including the importance of ...
On Oct. 20, 2020, a robot spacecraft took a sample of surface dust from asteroid Bennu. On Sept. 4, 2023, as it passed by the earth en route to asteroid Apophis, it dropped off a capsule carrying that ...
Glavin and a team of researchers probed the grit from Bennu, a carbon-rich asteroid made of loosely bound boulders, but what they found threw them a curveball. Rather than supporting one of the ...
Artist's conception of the DART spacecraft approaching the Didymos asteroid system before deflecting the Dimorphos moonlet ...
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has confirmed that this near-Earth visitor poses no threat to our planet.
The asteroid, discovered in December 2024, is believed to measure between 40 metres and 90 metres. It was first given a ...
Scientists have discovered traces of organic compounds in asteroid samples brought back by NASA, a finding that could suggest ...
The potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu probably won't hit Earth. But this study shows the damage a space rock of its size ...
Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...
Scientists recently completed computer simulations of what would happen to Earth if it were impacted by an asteroid with a ...