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The asteroid Bennu contains all the materials needed for life. This backs up an old hypothesis that the building blocks of life came to Earth on an asteroid.

An asteroid impact today could be devastating. But a few billion years ago, an impact may have helped life exist. Scientists ...

OSIRIS-REx launched in September 2016 and traveled 200 million miles (320 million kilometers) to reach Bennu. Once there, the spacecraft orbited the asteroid for nearly two years as flight engineers ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has declared a 1.6% chance that a large asteroid would strike the Earth when on Dec. 22, ...

Like Ryugu, Bennu is a carbonaceous asteroid. These space rocks are rich in carbon molecules ... the air was filtered to remove water vapor and dust particles. Upon landing in Utah, NASA immediately ...

When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...

29 (UPI) --Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that ... marking the "first international landing of a first stage booster" for the company. Feb. 15 (UPI) -- NASA's ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-metre-wide asteroid 320 million kilometres from Earth.

it also collected a precious sample of dust and small rocks from Bennu's rubbly surface. In September 2023, a capsule containing the pristine asteroid sample returned to Earth, landing in the Utah ...