In an update issued on February 7, NASA said the probability of 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth had gone from around 1.2 percent (one-in-83) to 2.3 percent (one-in-43).

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Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with Earth, a study has ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

A NASA mission collected the sample and brought it back in 2023, and scientists have found traces of ancient brine that contains minerals that are the raw ingredients of life.

A hot water extract from an asteroid Bennu sample (left, “Bennu tea”) was found to contain a surprising abundance of ammoni.(NASA) In a major twist to the study of life beyond Earth ...

And Bennu has an orbit that really facilitates this kind of round ... it would be exclusively the left-handed versions. So we’ve done a good job of keeping the sample pristine all the way to Danny’s ...

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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has delivered groundbreaking insights into the origins of life, thanks to pristine samples collected from the asteroid Bennu. The findings, published in Nature ...

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 ...

An undated image provided by NASA shows a top-down view of the Osiris-Rex Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism head with the lid removed, revealing samples from the asteroid Bennu inside. Photo: ...

A capsule carrying about a half cup of dust and rocks from an ancient asteroid named Bennu landed in the Utah desert in 2023. The samples were collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which sent a ...