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

Although the chances of impact are slim, Bennu is still one of the most potentially hazardous known asteroids in our solar ...

The James Webb Space Telescope, which is the JWST is the largest and space telescope ever built, is expected to help NASA and ...

Astronomers around the world have trained their telescopes toward an asteroid they believe has a minimal, but not insignificant, chance of hitting Earth in just under 8 years. Though space ...

"The immediate effects of a Bennu-sized asteroid impact would cause devastating damages around ... Using supercomputer models ...

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid ... between three to four years—because the impact would inject 100-400 million tons of dust into the atmosphere.

An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one percent chance of hitting Earth in about eight years. Such an impact has the potential for city-level devastation ...

The James Webb Space Telescope will be helping to track asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 2.3% chance of impacting Earth in 2032.

The asteroid Bennu has been at the ... of the IBS Centre for Climate Physics, a direct impact would release an estimated 400 million tons of dust, aerosols, and debris into the atmosphere.

But it was not the impact that had the most devastating effect: the 6-mile-wide (10 kilometers) asteroid ejected enormous amounts of dust, soot, and sulfur into the atmosphere, which created a ...