Bennu: Huge asteroid now has greater chance of hitting Earth through 2300, but still slim, NASA says
Bennu is one of the most hazardous known asteroids in our solar system. Thanks to a visit by a NASA spacecraft, scientists have a much greater understanding of the near-Earth asteroid, its upcoming ...
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. The IBS Center for Climate Physics ...
NEW YORK -- An asteroid NASA's been tracking for nearly 25 years could impact Earth in the future, a new report reveals. First discovered in 1999, Bennu, the near-Earth asteroid, could possibly drift ...
Scientists studying samples from the asteroid Bennu have found that it contains a remarkable mix of materials — some of which formed long before the sun even existed. "It's very fascinating to see ...
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NASA spacecraft collects dust older than sun from asteroid more than 200million miles away
Dust collected from an asteroid by a NASA spacecraft more than 200 million miles away from Earth contains material that is older than the sun. Scientists have analysed samples from the Bennu asteroid, ...
The Earth often gets a few visitors in the solar system, but some stick around for a while. Here's what to know about the 'quasi-moon.' ...
The University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission has been given a side job during its seven-year cruise to study and sample an asteroid named Bennu. The NASA spacecraft’s cameras will be looking for ...
Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...
On Sept. 8, OSIRIS-REx, the University of Arizona-led mission to retrieve an asteroid sample, will hitch a ride atop an Atlas V rocket at speeds up to 12,000 mph. Here is the itinerary for the next ...
Just a couple of short years ago, the world was abuzz with excitement as a human-made spacecraft was hurtling through space, bringing with it samples of a world so alien and distant that we've never ...
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Why collect asteroid samples? 4 essential reads on what these tiny bits of space rock can tell scientists
China’s Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission is set to launch this month, May 2025, en route to the asteroid Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3). The country could join the United States and Japan, whose space ...
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