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 ...

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 ...

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.

Don’t blame astronomers for the odds that an asteroid will strike Earth in 2032. The likelihood has gone from 3.1 per cent to ...

After impact odds reached the highest ever seen for an ... A 74 million tonne space rock, called Bennu, could potentially strike Earth in around one hundred years time. It was first discovered ...

Horse racing tipster Katie Midwinter has looked through the action across the cards on Saturday and has come up with six tips from Sandown, Hereford, Wolverhampton and Gowran Park for Betfair ...

Earlier this month, these odds were bumped up to a 2.3 per cent ... considerably smaller than the 500-metre-wide asteroid called Bennu, which currently has a less than one per cent chance of ...

Dr Andrews stressed 'the odds of an impact remain low', likening ... According to the results so far, an asteroid like Bennu that is rich in carbon could need several small bumps to charge ...