In 2016, NASA launched the spacecraft OSIRIS-REx towards the near-earth asteroid Bennu. The spacecraft managed to make contact in 2020, collecting samples which returned in 2023. Those samples ...

Known as the 'God of Chaos' asteroid, its scientific name is after the Egyptian god of chaos, Apophis. And it is much, much bigger than the newer discovery. Apophis was first spotted back in 2004 ...

Bennu’s potential collision with Earth is a remote but unsettling possibility, according to a new study. Bennu is about 500 metres wide—taller than the Empire State Building and as wide as ...

Apophis is named after an Egyptian god of chaos and evil. If it were to hit Earth, chaos would be the least of our trouble. It’s 1,000 feet across, the size of a football stadium, and it’s ...

Bennu — roughly one-third of a mile wide at its equator ... Adding to these concerns is the massive “Colossal God of Chaos” asteroid, weighing 67.24 million tons. It’s projected to pass dangerously ...

Bennu was also the target of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx ... And don’t even get us started on the 67.24 million ton “Colossal God of Chaos” asteroid which is expected to fly within less than 20,000 miles of ...

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 ...

Since last week’s newsletter offered a favorite argument for the existence of God, it’s only fair to balance the scales by considering a strong argument against religious faith, against the ...

(A view of eight sample trays containing the final material from asteroid Bennu.) Credit: NASA/Erika Blumenfeld & Joseph Aebersold Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing ...

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 ...