The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every ...

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

Bennu’s highly unlikely impact with Earth—which could happen in 157 years—could cause a global winter and drought, modeling ...

An asteroid the size of One World Trade Center has a very small chance of crashing into Earth in the year 2182. But what ...

The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...

Bennu, which comes closest to Earth every six years at a distance of 299,000 km, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with ...

The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...

Simulations of a potential impact by a hill-sized space rock event next century have revealed the rough ride humanity would be in for, hinting at what it'd take for us to survive such a catastrophe.

Researchers said on Thursday that they had discovered twin-lobed radio jets they suspect were formed when the universe was ...

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