Researchers predict that a collision with the asteroid Bennu would plunge Earth into a year's long 'impact winter'.
A team of researchers have now modelled what will happen to the planet, climate and humans if this asteroid crashes on Earth ...
The asteroid, named Bennu, passes close to Earth every six years. It is listed as one of NASA’s “potentially hazardous ...
Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...
As the French expert indicates, the size of asteroid 2024 YR4 “is between 40 and 100 meters, with a probable estimate of ...
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 ...
One of those is asteroid Bennu, the recent lucky target of an asteroid sample collection mission. In a mere 157 years – ...
"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...
New NASA observations show a near-Earth asteroid with more than a 1% chance of impacting Earth in seven years.
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 ...
New fossils provide clues How did wolves evolve into dogs? New fossils provide clues We just learned where the asteroid that ended dinosaurs came from We just learned where the asteroid that ended din ...