Artist's conception of the DART spacecraft approaching the Didymos asteroid system before deflecting the Dimorphos moonlet ...

Bennu, which comes closest to Earth every six years at a distance of 299,000 km, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with ...

Bennu has a diameter of roughly 500 meters (1,640 feet) and has a 1 in 2,700 chance of hitting our planet in September 2182.

Bennu was chosen as a target for OSIRIS-REx (which stands for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security - Regolith Explorer) in part because it is an Earth-crossing ...

This week, explore what lurks in asteroid dust, marvel at the world’s largest beaded burial, discover an elusive creature ...

Bennu’s minerals offered crucial clues to how the asteroid formed — and how its amino acids and ... “I think it went somewhere down the path towards life.” But the same chemistry might have had more ...

YR4, a near-Earth asteroid has a one-in-45 chance of hitting Planet Earth in December 2032, NASA and the European Space ...

YR4 asteroid has a 1-in-45 chance of hitting Earth in 2032. While the risk is low, monitoring continues to assess the impact threat.

Studies on asteroid Bennu's chemical building blocks deepens ... So if life could have taken the other path, why didn't it? Is uniform "handedness" a secret ingredient in the recipe for life ...

Two science teams pored over samples from the B-type asteroid Bennu, finding chemicals linked to the beginnings of life and brine that is of interest for future space exploration.