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Analysis of samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu reveal that it has a bizarre chemical make-up and is ...

(CNN) — If the near-Earth asteroid Bennu were to collide with Earth in ... in diameter and marked the last known large asteroid to hit the planet. Given the small but not impossible chance ...

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

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

If Bennu did hit Earth, it would trigger an explosion equivalent to 1.4 billion tons of TNT. Not only could the 500-metre-wide rock threaten millions of lives, but a recent study predicted that ...

For example, an asteroid estimated at 10 to 15km wide - much larger than 2024 YR4 - hit off the ... asteroid the size of Bennu - with a diameter of roughly 500m - strikes Earth.