"So this, of course, increases the odds that life could have formed on other planets," she said. A mission called OSIRIS-REx landed on an asteroid named Bennu in 2020, jammed its arm into the rock ...

While the odds of Bennu impacting Earth may sound alarming, they're not entirely unexpected. "On average, medium-sized asteroids collide with Earth about every 100–200 thousand years.

In an update issued on February 7, NASA said the probability of 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth had gone from around 1.2 percent (one-in-83) to 2.3 percent (one-in-43).

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

Many biological molecules are chiral, meaning they exist in two forms that are mirror images of each other, like left and ...

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with the Earth in September 2182, new research has discovered. The IBS Center for Climate Physics ...

Bennu is just the latest body in the Solar System ... As of Jan. 30, 2025, the odds of this asteroid hitting Earth are 1 in 77, and it is now rated three out of 10 on the Torino Scale.

Bennu is a potentially hazardous asteroid that has a 1-in-2,700 chance of striking Earth in the year 2182 — the highest odds of any known space object. But scientists are more interested in what ...

WASHINGTON — The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every six years at about 186,000 miles away. It might come even ...

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 ...