NASA's watchful eye on the skies has recently spotted asteroid Bennu, a celestial body with a slim chance of impacting Earth. According to a study published in Science Advances, Bennu's odds of ...

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 ...

and then brought that sample back to Earth for a landing in the Utah desert in September 2023. While the odds of Bennu impacting Earth may sound alarming, they're not entirely unexpected.

and careful curation and storage of this precious material from Bennu." ‘TOUCHDOWN’: NASA’S ASTEROID SAMPLE COMES BLASTING DOWN TO EARTH, LANDING IN UTAH Researchers stressed that the ...

successfully demonstrated the ability to alter an asteroid’s trajectory in 2022 by crashing a spacecraft into Dimorphos, a small moon orbiting the asteroid Didymos. If Bennu were ever confirmed ...

Bennu, an asteroid the size of the Empire State Building, has a 1-in-2700 chance of hitting Earth in 2182. 'Fuel-free space travel': NASA engineer claims discovery that defies physics 'Galactic ...

Discovered in 1999, asteroid Bennu currently poses the greatest risk ... Last observed in 1979, asteroid 1979 XB has a poorly understood trajectory. Scientists estimate a 0.000055% (1 in 1.8 ...