The potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu probably won't hit Earth. But this study shows the damage a space rock of its size could do.

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.

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

NASA will use the James Webb Space Telescope to gather crucial data on the size of asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a small ...

The asteroid Bennu, visited by a NASA robotic probe five years ... in part because it is an Earth-crossing asteroid, meaning its path around the sun could lead it to collide with Earth someday.

Planets gradually emerged from the cloud, each developing down a different path in ... with Earth’s atmosphere can alter meteorites even more. By traveling to Bennu, NASA researchers reasoned ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment ... Scientists have long debated whether Earth is truly unique. Perhaps our planet just happened ...

NASA has released new images of a 'city-destroying' asteroid hurtling through space. This asteroid has a ...

So if life could have taken the other path ... early Earth, including left-handed amino acids. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab illustration But the Bennu ...

Bennu is not on the scale of the Chicxulub impactor – which hit the Earth at the end of the Cretaceous ... sulfur if the asteroid hits land, the path through the atmosphere will leave plenty ...

of dust samples returned to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission in September 2024. The goal of the study was to ascertain what components comprise Bennu, which existed since the early days of the solar ...

NASA’s Asteroid ... asteroid’s potential path, and subsequent observations and modeling will be critical in determining whether Earth remains in the asteroid’s orbital path or not.