NASA's watchful eye on the skies has recently spotted asteroid Bennu, a celestial body with a slim chance of impacting Earth.

An asteroid impact today could be devastating. But a few billion years ago, an impact may have helped life exist. Scientists ...

Although the chances of impact are slim, Bennu is still one of the most potentially hazardous known asteroids in our solar ...

Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building ...

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

The near-Earth asteroid Bennu poses a potential threat of collision with Earth. New research shows that an impact could cause drastic climate changes, leading to 'impact winter' and severe ozone ...

In a recent study, scientists at the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) at Pusan National University in South Korea ...

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 found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...

"So this, of course, increases the odds that life could have formed on other planets," she said. A mission called OSIRIS-REx landed on an asteroid named Bennu in 2020, jammed its arm into the rock ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...