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NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission reached asteroid 101955 Bennu. Two years later, the spacecraft snagged a sample of its surface, ...

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

A report published in Science Advances details when the asteroid could collide with Earth and the destruction it would cause.

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

Simulations of a potential impact by a hill-sized space rock event next century have revealed the rough ride humanity would ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid ...

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

The Bennu samples revealed magnetite (iron oxide) crystals less than 1 micrometer in size. The individual crystals included ...

Scientists recently discovered that San Bernardino County's Searles Lake contains minerals found in outer space.

If the near-Earth asteroid Bennu were to collide with Earth in the future, the space rock could cause substantial global damage, even though it’s a fraction of the size of the asteroid that ...