New simulations reveal that the climate, atmospheric chemistry and even global photosynthesis would be dramatically disrupted by an asteroid collision ...

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A Bennu-type asteroid could lead to “severe environmental consequences,” researchers write, while acknowledging that a collision is not likely.

Additionally, researchers discovered salt minerals formed by the evaporation of water, suggesting that Bennu’s parent body once had liquid water—a fundamental ingredient for life as we know it.

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

The researchers boiled rocks and dust from Bennu in water and acid to extract organic compounds, then used mass spectrometry to identify the molecules, including 14 of the 20 amino acids that life ...

Previously, scientists, after initial analyses of Bennu's samples in 2023, pointed to the presence of carbon and water enclosed in clay minerals. The current analysis results are even more surprising.

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

VIAVI Solutions announced its contribution to NASA’s Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of ...

Experiments suggest that processes in the interior of the moon could keep it swathed in an atmosphere that should otherwise ...