Nobody knows how life began on Earth, but some tantalizing clues from an asteroid suggest it might not have started here.

Science correspondent Allan Blackman joins Kathryn to talk about what samples of the asteroid Bennu reveal about the building ...

Two new studies examining these extraterrestrial space grains found signs of life’s molecules preserved on the asteroid’s ancient surface. Dust and rocks from Bennu contained all five ...

Science correspondent Allan Blackman joins Kathryn to talk about what samples of the asteroid Bennu reveal about the building blocks of life on Earth. Meanwhile the odds of 'city killer' asteroid 2024 ...

“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 ...

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

A group of researchers based in South Korea drew up scenarios indicating how Earth’s climate and life on our planet would be affected by the impact of a medium-sized asteroid like Bennu.

Astronomers estimate that Bennu has a 1 in 2,700 chance of affecting Earth in September 2182, which equates to a 0.037% chance. The asteroid, which contains the building blocks of life according ...

So far, we’ve learned that it is a “rubble pile”-type asteroid rather than a solid body, and recently that it bears many of the ingredients for life. But Bennu is more than just a near-Earth ...

Samples from the asteroid Bennu, brought back by the OSIRIS-REx mission, reveal key molecules for life. These discoveries shed light on the chemical processes that may have seeded Earth billions of ...

An asteroid impact today could be devastating. But a few billion years ago, an impact may have helped life exist. Scientists hope to learn more about that possibility with recently extracted samples ...