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

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission reached asteroid 101955 Bennu. Two years later, the spacecraft snagged a sample of its surface, ...

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Scientists have confirmed the presence of organic molecules on the surface of the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, opening the ... That is, according to NASA's Nicky Fox, our textbooks on the origins ...

According to NASA, Bennu is about one-third of a mile (half a kilometer) wide at its equator. That's far smaller than the six-mile (10-kilometer) wide behemoth that struck Earth 66 million years ...

YR4 asteroid has a 1-in-45 chance of hitting Earth in 2032. While the risk is low, monitoring continues to assess the impact threat.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, launched in 2016, successfully collected 120 grams of samples from Bennu in 2020 and delivered them to Earth in September 2023. Scientists have since been analyzing ...

YR4, a near-Earth asteroid has a one-in-45 chance of hitting Planet Earth in December 2032, NASA and the European Space ...

The asteroid was the subject of a historic NASA mission, OSIRIS-REx, which snagged a piece of Bennu in October 2020 and dropped it off on Earth in September 2023. The mission allowed scientists to ...

WASHINGTON — The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid ... of the solar system roughly 4.5 billion years ago. NASA's robotic OSIRIS-REx spacecraft journeyed to ...