Space agencies around the world are tasked with locating, studying and analysing the trajectories of cosmic objects that pose ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission reached asteroid 101955 Bennu. Two years later, the spacecraft snagged a sample of its surface, ...

Learn about the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, its close approaches to Earth, and the catastrophic consequences of a potential ...

Scientists recently completed computer simulations of what would happen to Earth if it were impacted by an asteroid with a ...

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Although the chances of impact are slim, Bennu is still one of the most potentially hazardous known asteroids in our solar ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

Simulations of a potential impact by a hill-sized space rock event next century have revealed the rough ride humanity would ...

Bennu’s highly unlikely impact with Earth—which could happen in 157 years—could cause a global winter and drought, modeling ...

The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every ...

Bennu has a diameter of roughly 500 meters (1,640 feet) and has a 1 in 2,700 chance of hitting our planet in September 2182.