Earth, Asteroid and Bennu

It was initially believed the asteroid, first detected on December 27, had about a 1 percent chance of colliding with Earth, but by Thursday, that chance had risen to 2.3 percent. On Wednesday, NASA ...
In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 ...
This week, explore what lurks in asteroid dust, marvel at the world’s largest beaded burial, discover an elusive creature ...
The discovery is a capstone achievement for NASA, which went to great lengths to secure and deliver asteroid samples from ...
The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were ...
Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
XR flew about 1.37 million miles (2.2M km) away from Earth. The space rock is estimated to be about 300-700 km (248-434 miles ...