Scientists recently completed computer simulations of what would happen to Earth if it were impacted by an asteroid with a ...

Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

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

The potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu probably won't hit Earth. But this study shows the damage a space rock of its size could do.

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with Earth, a study has ...

Searles Lake has long been shaped by shifting water levels, volcanic minerals, and evaporite formation. In 2024, satellites ...

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

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

Bennu contains uracil ... “It doesn’t take something like a planet or a big moon,” said Tim McCoy, the curator of meteorites at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and ...

The building blocks for organic matter have been discovered on the asteroid Bennu, as deatiled in a new ... are often contaminated by exposure to our planet. To avoid having this happen with ...

“Asteroids provide a time capsule into our home planet’s history, and Bennu’s samples are pivotal in our understanding of what ingredients in our solar system existed before life started on ...