Bennu was also an attractive target because it skirts the asteroid belt, which circles the sun between Mars and Jupiter. At its closest, the asteroid is 200 million miles from Earth. While still a ...

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. ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with the Earth in September 2182, new research has discovered.

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

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.