Chile's dark skies, vital for astronomy, face threats from urban development. The asteroid Bennu could pose a future risk to ...

Searles Lake has long been shaped by shifting water levels, volcanic minerals, and evaporite formation. In 2024, satellites ...

A sample of dust and rocks from an asteroid ... s a twist to Bennu’s chemical makeup. Whereas most Earthly amino acids exist in a left-handed form, samples from Bennu contain an almost equal amount of ...

Imagine a future where deep space explorers send high-definition video messages from the surface of Mars, or where scientific ...

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with Earth, a study has ...

They calculated that there is a very small chance — about 1-in-2700, or 0.037% to be exact — that asteroid Bennu, which is roughly the size of the Empire State Building, could collide with our ...

Credit: Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Getty Images In the most extreme scenario ... The study "Climatic and ecological responses to Bennu-type asteroid collisions" was published in the ...

This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu, composed of 12 PolyCam images collected on December 2, 2018 by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a range of 15 miles (24 km). NASA ...

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

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 might come even ...