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.

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"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...

GRAND FORKS, ND — Astronomers have turned their high-powered telescopes toward a 100-meter wide asteroid hurtling in its orbit through the Milky Way galaxy and are hoping it doesn’t collide ...

Scientists have revealed what would actually happen to our planet if an asteroid the size of One World Trade Center smashed into it. The findings were modeled on near-Earth asteroid Bennu ...

Although Bennu is much smaller than the asteroid that formed the Chixulub crater and wiped out the dinosaurs, even its impact could dramatically change the global climate and food production.