A Bennu-type asteroid could lead to “severe environmental consequences,” researchers write, while acknowledging that a ...

Simulations of a potential impact by a hill-sized space rock event next century have revealed the rough ride humanity would ...

The potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu probably won't hit Earth. But this study shows the damage a space rock of its size ...

Bennu, which comes closest to Earth every six years at a distance of 299,000 km, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with ...

Scientists recently completed computer simulations of what would happen to Earth if it were impacted by an asteroid with a ...

Asteroids, small airless bodies within the inner solar ... NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission returned 121.6 grams of sample from asteroid (101955) Bennu in September 2023—the largest sample ever returned to ...

On September 24, 2182 ... the dinosaur-killing asteroid was massive. Medium-sized asteroids like Bennu are more common in the solar system. A graphic showing the damage caused by asteroids ...

A report published in Science Advances details when the asteroid could collide with Earth and the destruction it would cause.

The spacecraft OSIRIS-REx returned to Earth in September 2023 ... molecules and that similar asteroids could have brought these materials to a primordial Earth. Bennu’s parent asteroid, which ...

Asteroids like Bennu are rocky or metallic objects in orbit around the ... Ever since the Bennu samples returned to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023, we and our colleagues on four continents have spent ...

It might come even closer in the future, with scientists estimating a one-in-2,700 chance of a collision with Earth in September 2182. So what would happen should Bennu strike our planet?