REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

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2600 BCE: The Great Pyramid is built. 51 BCE: Cleopatra begins her reign. 2025 CE: Making Egypt opens at the Young V&A, making the exhibition closer in time to Cleopatra than to the Great Pyramids.

The asteroid 99942 Apophis is headed for a close flyby with Earth on April 13, 2029, and space agencies are coordinating efforts to study the object during this the once-in-a-lifetime experience ...

Named after an Egyptian bird, Bennu contains special minerals such as salts, phosphates, ammonia and dozens of protein-building amino acids. Edited by: NDTV News Desk World News Apr 21, 2025 17:08 ...

Bennu is an ancient Egyptian deity linked with the Sun, creation, and rebirth. Asteroid Bennu’s parent body was likely a salty, wet environment – one surprisingly like a lakebed on Earth.

Another commonly cited source of inspiration is the deity Bennu’s creation of the world—which can be thought of as a birth—in Egyptian mythology; Bennu is sometimes said to be represented by ...

When NASA landed a probe on an asteroid and took samples they brought back some incredibly valuable things to Earth. The official name of this chunk of space rock is 101955 Bennu, which we'll call ...

In 2016, NASA launched the “Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Regolith Explorer” (Osiris-Rex) mission to study the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. It intercepted ...

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NASA scientists calculate that when Bennu makes a close approach to Earth on Sept. 24, 2182, there is a 0.037% — or 1 in 2,700 — chance that the asteroid will strike our planet.