Artist's conception of the DART spacecraft approaching the Didymos asteroid system before deflecting the Dimorphos moonlet ...

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

NASA is using its most powerful space telescope to study the true size of the "city-killer" asteroid that has a one-in-43 ...

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US Video Recording Date/Time: February 5, 2025 at 13:00h Protests against the Trump administration were held across the United States on Wednesday, February 5. As part of ...

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

Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing asteroid Bennu samples, some of the most pristine ever ...

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 ...

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 ...

The study "Climatic and ecological responses to Bennu-type asteroid collisions" was published in the journal Science Advances on Feb. 5.