But Bennu is more than just a near-Earth object. It is also classified as a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA), which can ...

Space agencies around the world are tasked with locating, studying and analysing the trajectories of cosmic objects that pose ...

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.

Scientists recently completed computer simulations of what would happen to Earth if it were impacted by an asteroid with a ...

Simulations of a potential impact by a hill-sized space rock event next century have revealed the rough ride humanity would ...

A report published in Science Advances details when the asteroid could collide with Earth and the destruction it would cause.

plant photosynthesis would decrease by between 20 and 30 percent and the planet's ozone layer would deplete by 32 percent. This undated image made available by NASA shows the asteroid Bennu from ...

Learn about the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, its close approaches to Earth, and the catastrophic consequences of a potential ...

Bennu, which comes closest to Earth every six years at a distance of 299,000 km, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with ...

or 0.037% to be exact — that asteroid Bennu, which is roughly the size of the Empire State Building, could collide with our planet in September 2182. Bennu was the target for NASA's OSIRIS-REx ...

“Asteroids provide a time capsule into our home planet’s history, and Bennu’s samples are pivotal in our understanding of what ingredients in our solar system existed before life started on ...

“Hopefully, humans may be able to defend our planet from Bennu by deflecting its trajectory if it heads toward Earth.” In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into the tiny asteroid Dimorphos as ...