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One of the studies, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, shows that ice inside the parent asteroid melted and reacted ...
Tom Zega, a University of Arizona scientist who's worked on samples brought back from the asteroid Bennu, tells The Show more ...
In May 2021, OSIRIS-REx began its journey back to Earth carrying dust from Bennu - a rubble-pile asteroid older than Earth ...
Our solar system is filled with rocky debris tumbling around the sun, most of which is the same age, but the asteroid Bennu ...
Bennu is one of the most hazardous known asteroids in our solar system. Thanks to a visit by a NASA spacecraft, scientists have a much greater understanding of the near-Earth asteroid, its upcoming ...
The near-Earth asteroid Bennu contains stardust that is older than our solar system, as well as organic materials and ices from interstellar space, three fresh studies of the asteroid's sample ...
The research shows the asteroid likely is made of compounds that came from different parts of the proto-planetary disk that made the solar system.
NEW YORK -- An asteroid NASA's been tracking for nearly 25 years could impact Earth in the future, a new report reveals. First discovered in 1999, Bennu, the near-Earth asteroid, could possibly drift ...
Water may have flowed on the asteroid that birthed the space rock Ryugu a billion years after it formed, much later than ...