"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).

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.

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

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 ...

Asteroid Bennu still a concern ... "Coming home" NASA has recently increased the odds that asteroid YR4, a "city-killer" rock, could strike Earth in 2032. The space agency now estimates the ...

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 ...