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Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with Earth, a study has ...
The potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu probably won't hit Earth. But this study shows the damage a space rock of its size ...
An asteroid the size of One World Trade Center has a very small chance of crashing into Earth in the year 2182. But what ...
Science correspondent Allan Blackman talks about how the theory of quantum mechanics was born back in 1925, and the ways it's gone on to change our lives by enabling a range of technologies we now ...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino ...
A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...
The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were ...
Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing asteroid Bennu samples, some of the most pristine ever collected. These fragments date back 4.5 billion years and contain salts, ...