Scientists recently completed computer simulations of what would happen to Earth if it were impacted by an asteroid with a ...

The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were all five of the basic building block for life — Guanine, Cytosine, Adenine, ...

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

Bennu contains minerals and thousands of organic molecules, including the chemical components that make up DNA.

WASHINGTON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth ... the researchers said. Large quantities of aerosols and gases would reach the upper atmosphere, causing ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global winter that affects our planet for years.

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth ... It would also leave a large crater and eject debris upward. Ecosystems would spend years reckoning with the impact of large quantities of ...

Scientists simulated what would happen if a medium-size asteroid were to strike Earth. One of those space rocks, asteroid ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, according to research that provides some of the ...

Large quantities of aerosols and gases released by the impact could ascend into the atmosphere, altering Earth’s climate with lingering effects, she said. If Bennu were to strike the ocean ...