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Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with Earth, a study has ...

On the world's first Asteroid Day, Nina Burleigh discovers that Nasa has already commissioned a team of 'planetary defenders' ...

China has begun recruiting for a planetary defense force after risk assessments determined that an asteroid could conceivably ...

The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every ...

Was 2020’s ‘Don’t Look Up’ accurate? Find out what NASA revealed about an asteroid that will approach Earth in 2032.

The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were ...

Researchers used computer simulations to study the impact of an asteroid with the diameter of ... collected 120 grams of samples from Bennu in 2020 and delivered them to Earth in September 2023.

The odds are about 1% that the football field-sized object could hit the Earth, but that makes it the closest call in more ...

The impact of a Bennu-sized object - a medium-sized asteroid - on Earth's land surface ... OSIRIS-REx spacecraft journeyed to Bennu and in 2020 collected samples of rock and dust for analysis.

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...

The team’s findings shake up the story of Bennu, whose rocky bits were valiantly collected by NASA in 2020, and hint at ... A dive into probabilities, asteroid impact modeling, and what sort ...