Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. ... estimated to be the size of four Mount ...

In 2018, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission reached asteroid 101955 Bennu. Two years later, the spacecraft snagged a sample of its surface, which has since been returned to Earth. Now, astronomers are ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global winter that affects our planet for years.

Before he was a rock star, Queen’s lead guitarist Brian May was an astrophysicist. He put those skills to the test in NASA’s first-ever asteroid sample return mission.

Asteroid Bennu is a potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid that was studied by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission from 2018 to 2021.

Since arriving at the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission has brought a wealth of observations of the near-Earth asteroid revealing at the same time a lot of surprises. ... changing ...

Rob Wardell (left) and Dr. Tim McCoy from the department of mineral sciences at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC, place a sample of the asteroid Bennu into a ...

Despite the slightly higher chance of impact, the risks from Bennu shouldn’t keep anyone awake at night. There’s more than a 99.9 percent chance that Bennu will not hit Earth in the next three ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. ... estimated to be the size of four Mount Everests, slammed into Earth more than 3.2 billion years ago. ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global winter that affects our planet for years.