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

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

Asteroids have struck Earth occasionally over its long history, often with cataclysmic results. An asteroid estimated at 6-9 ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

The asteroid, named Bennu, passes close to Earth every six years. It is listed as one of NASA’s “potentially hazardous ...

Bennu’s parent asteroid, which formed around 4.5 billion years ago, seems to have been home to pockets of liquid water.

Perhaps our planet just happened to have the right combination ... the journal Nature on Wednesday that the asteroid, known as Bennu, contains a wealth of organic molecules, including many crucial ...

The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...

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

The asteroid Bennu contains a lot of organic molecules, including many essential building blocks of life, according to a ...

Scientists say samples harvested from NASA’s historic mission to the asteroid Bennu contain the precursors to life on Earth, ...

NASA classifies Bennu as a medium-sized asteroid, measuring about one-third of a mile (500 metres) across. While far smaller ...