The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists, with samples from the space rock showing weirder properties than they expected. These include extremely high nitrogen levels and improbably magnetic ...

Bennu’s potential collision with Earth is a remote but unsettling possibility, according to a new study. Bennu is about 500 metres wide—taller than the Empire State Building and as wide as ...

The asteroid Bennu has been at the centre of scientific discussions recently, especially after researchers analysed surface samples collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. While much of the ...

A team of scientists, studying samples from the asteroid Bennu, identified numerous organic molecules, including important ingredients of life.According to NASA, these key samples were collected ...

Scientists have simulated what would happen if asteroid Bennu, a 500-meter-wide space rock, were to collide with Earth in September 2182. The results paint a grim picture—global climate collapse ...

In 2016, NASA launched the spacecraft OSIRIS-REx towards the near-earth asteroid Bennu. The spacecraft managed to make contact in 2020, collecting samples which returned in 2023. Those samples ...

Asteroid Bennu, A rocky object located in the heart of our solar system's asteroid belt, has recently become the centre of a groundbreaking discovery for its potential to answer one of humanity's ...

The Yarkovsky effect causes orbital semimajor axis drift, and the Yarkovsky–O’Keefe–Radzievskii–Paddack (YORP) effect causes changes in the rotation rate and pole orientation. We present an adaptation ...

White House takes control of the press pool covering Trump The White House said on Tuesday it would decide which media organizations participate in the press pool that covers the president ...

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