Analysis of samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu reveal that it has a bizarre chemical make-up and is ...

"Hopefully, humans may be able to defend our planet from Bennu by deflecting its trajectory if it heads toward Earth." In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into the tiny asteroid Dimorphos as part of ...

New simulations reveal that the climate, atmospheric chemistry and even global photosynthesis would be dramatically disrupted by an asteroid collision ...

plant photosynthesis would decrease by between 20 and 30 percent and the planet's ozone layer would deplete by 32 percent. This undated image made available by NASA shows the asteroid Bennu from ...

Bennu, one of the largest asteroids, has been the subject of research and simulations in the event of an impact with our planet. Bennu is 500 meters wide and astronomers have predicted a one in ...

Bennu is just the latest body in the Solar System ... The Dec. 25 Christmas Day pass saw 2024 YR4 come within 828,800 km of our planet, and a “precovery” observation of the asteroid taken ...

or 0.037% to be exact — that asteroid Bennu, which is roughly the size of the Empire State Building, could collide with our planet in September 2182. Bennu was the target for NASA's OSIRIS-REx ...

and some of the fragments came together to form the rubble pile we know as Bennu. These minerals are also found on icy bodies in the outer solar system. Bright deposits on the dwarf planet Ceres ...

Although the chances are slim, scientists estimate that Bennu has a 1-in-2,700 chance of striking our planet. If such an event were to occur, it wouldn't happen until the year 2182, meaning ...

In an update issued on February 7, NASA said the probability of 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth had gone from around 1.2 percent (one-in-83) to 2.3 percent (one-in-43).

The planet, named HD 20794 d ... Studies of rock and dust from the asteroid Bennu delivered to earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft suggest the conditions necessary for the emergence of ...