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

This image, taken by NASA's Osiris-Rex probe in December 2018, shows the asteroid Bennu. Scientists have identified 14 of the 20 amino acids used by terrestrial life, as well as the five nucleic acid ...

Bennu’s surface samples contained organic molecules, which are carbon-based substances necessary for life. These substances, which include complex carbon structures and amino acids, remarkably ...

The 120 g of material came from the near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu, which OSIRIS-REx visited in ... after Glavin and Dworkin’s team discovered that the amino acids in the Bennu sample are a mix of ...

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 ...

This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 images taken ... with 14 of the 20 amino acids that life on Earth uses to make proteins, as well as all five nucleobases that life on Earth ...

Although the chances of impact are slim, Bennu is still one of the most potentially hazardous known asteroids in our solar system, and we need to be prepared for what could come. A first-of-its ...

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 is not on the scale of the Chicxulub impactor – which hit the ...

The modest container was holding samples collected from Bennu, a diamond-shaped asteroid billions of miles away, and had been traveling through the dark corridors of space for years. After it ...

Amino acids are important as they form proteins which living beings use for nearly every movement or bodily function. Another remarkable discovery from Bennu's samples could indicate that water ...

Secured inside that delivery was over 120 grams of material collected directly from 101955 Bennu ... even more profound. The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential ...