Dust and other debris would rise into the atmosphere on Bennu striking Earth, blocking out the Sun and cooling the planet to ...

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, ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission from a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu.

The Europe-China Einstein Probe has detected an unusual X-ray burst originating from a rare pair of stars. This discovery ...

Then, those blasted-off pieces coalesced, like a pile of rocky rubble that is weakly held together by gravity. The sample was collected from Bennu in October 2020 by a NASA mission called OSIRIS ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Europe’s Euclid space telescope has detected a rare halo of bright light around a nearby galaxy, ...

Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

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).

Gravity Tractors – A spacecraft could fly near Bennu for years, using its gravitational pull to slowly alter the asteroid’s trajectory. Axel Timmerman, co-author of the study, noted ...