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Researchers predict that a collision with the asteroid Bennu would plunge Earth into a year's long 'impact winter'.

An asteroid spotted in late December 2024 caught astronomers’ eyes and simulations to determine possible orbits indicate the object could strike Earth in 2032, but West Virginia University researchers ...

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

A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant chance of impacting ...

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

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

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.