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

That is to say, even if it's not Bennu headed our way, we might want to know what we are in for. Related: These 5 impact craters highlight Earth's wild history "On average, Bennu-sized asteroids ...

Bennu is just the latest body in the Solar System ... 2024 YR4 is currently thought to be around the size of the impactor that created Meteor Crater in Arizona, which is 1,200 m in diameter ...

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth ... It would also leave a large crater and eject debris upward. Ecosystems would spend years reckoning with the impact of large quantities of ...

(THE CONVERSATION) A bright fireball streaked across the sky above mountains, glaciers and spruce forest near the town of Revelstoke in British Columbia, Canada, on the evening of March 31, 1965.

Analysing returned samples Tim McCoy (right), curator of meteorites at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, and research geologist Cari Corrigan examine scanning electron microscope ...

The asteroid Bennu has been at the centre of scientific ... created the Chicxulub crater and is widely believed to have triggered the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs.

The sample, which the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected from the asteroid Bennu and returned to Earth in 2023, contains all five nucleobases — the "letters" that make up DNA and RNA — alongside ...