"But large amounts of ejecta from the impact ... out the dinosaurs about 66 million years ago. However, even a Bennu-size asteroid could drastically reduce global food production and lead to ...

The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists, with samples from the space rock showing weirder properties than they expected. These include extremely high nitrogen levels and improbably magnetic ...

Medium-size asteroids such as Bennu collide ... t lived through an asteroid strike, Dai compared the environmental effects to other “sun-blocking catastrophes,” such as large volcanic eruptions.

The new data, obtained by the European Southern Observatory's Chile-based Very Large Telescope and ... damage that would be caused if an asteroid the size of Bennu - with a diameter of roughly ...

Additionally, the Bennu samples contain large quantities of ammonia and ... Bennu, designated a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid due to its size and Earth-crossing orbit, has a 1-in-1,750 chance ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission collected samples from Bennu, and the Hayabusa2 asteroid-sampling spacecraft from the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) nabbed samples from Ryugu. "We can ...

NASA has proven that successful extraction of materials from asteroids is possible; this was most recently seen with the promising results of its OSIRIS-REx mission, which retrieved samples containing ...

NASA spacecraft touched down on the rugged surface of the Bennu asteroid on Tuesday, grabbing a sample of rocks dating back to the birth of our solar system to bring home. The minivan-sized OSIRIS ...

The asteroid Bennu is a celestial body with an average diameter of about 560 meters that was discovered in 1999. It is said that it will approach Earth many times over the course of about 200 ...

NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces) of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert in 2023 before swooping off after ...