WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every six years at about 186,000 miles (299,000 km) away. It ...

The near-Earth asteroid known as Bennu is drawing concern due to its potential collision course with Earth, with scientists calculating a one-in-2,700 chance of impact by September 2182. At its ...

WASHINGTON, USA – The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every six years at about 186,000 miles (299,000 km) away ...

Asteroid Bennu is a potentially dangerous object that ranks third on the list of possible future collisions with Earth compiled by Sentry. There is a possibility that it could hit the Earth in 157 ...

Scientists Predict Devastation if Asteroid Bennu Strikes Earth in 2182 By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making ...

Analysing returned samples Tim McCoy (right), curator of meteorites at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, and research geologist Cari Corrigan examine scanning electron microscope ...

(CNN) — If the near-Earth asteroid Bennu were to collide with Earth in the future, the space rock could cause substantial global damage, even though it’s a fraction of the size of the asteroid ...

Asteroids provide a time capsule into our home planet’s history, and Bennu’s samples are pivotal in our understanding of what ingredients in our solar system existed before life started on Earth,” ...