A few ounces of rock and dust retrieved from the distant asteroid Bennu show evidence of the building blocks of life.

The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists, with samples from the space rock showing weirder properties than they expected. These include extremely high nitrogen levels and improbably magnetic ...

The asteroid Bennu contains all the materials needed for life. This backs up an old hypothesis that the building blocks of life came to Earth on an asteroid.

Back to Article List Bennu isn’t likely to hit Earth — but if it did, here’s what would happen Although classified as a potentially hazardous asteroid, Bennu probably won't hit Earth.

Asteroid Bennu is a primordial goldmine of secrets. A relic from our early solar system, it may hold molecular precursors to the origin of life.

Security staff struggled to prevent scores of ticketless fans rushing the gates or climbing the perimeter fencing to watch ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that shed light on how life arose.

On Sunday, a capsule containing pieces from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu entered Earth's atmosphere, landing in Utah's West Desert.

NASA has completed its first asteroid Bennu analysis using the samples returned by OSIRIS-REx, revealing some intriguing results.

In 2023, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale of rock, ice and water that hints at how life could have ...

Bennu is a 1,600-foot-wide near-Earth asteroid that was discovered in 1999 by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) Project. It passes by Earth approximately every 6 years.

The first major findings from the OSIRIS-REx to asteroid Bennu show the space rock will likely not strike the earth in the 22nd century.