Scientists have simulated what would happen if asteroid Bennu, a 500-meter-wide space rock, were to collide with Earth in September ... danger lies in what happens next. The research team used ...

But then came the next surprise: Bennu's rock turned out to be incredibly ... since it has a "non-negligible chance" of crashing into Earth during the 22nd century. Its fragility could be good ...

Discovered in 1999, asteroid Bennu currently poses the greatest risk to Earth. Though the chance of ... but will not pose a danger for at least the next 100 years. Currently, none of these ...

In December 2020 a 40-centimetre steel capsule parachuted to Earth, landing next to a bush in the remote ... we hope to get from the asteroids Bennu and Ryugu.” “Those of us who study ...

Analysis of samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu reveal that it has a bizarre chemical make-up and is unusually magnetic ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 Bennu after the mission returned its samples to Earth in 2023.

September of 2023 was an exciting month for space exploration when OSIRIS-REx finally returned to Earth, dropping off the samples it had collected from the potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu.

Bennu is a so-called medium-sized asteroid with a diameter of around 500 m. This type of asteroid is more likely to impact Earth than the “planet killer” larger asteroids, but has been studied far ...

In 2016, NASA embarked on a new and unique mission: sending the Osiris-REx spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid Bennu to study the rocky space object and collect samples to return to ...