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In 2016, NASA launched the spacecraft OSIRIS-REx towards the near-earth asteroid Bennu. The spacecraft managed to make contact in 2020, collecting samples which returned in 2023. Those samples ...

Bennu’s potential collision with Earth is a remote but unsettling possibility, according to a new study. Bennu is about 500 metres wide—taller than the Empire State Building and as wide as ...

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Earth could face catastrophic consequences if hit by an asteroid similar to Bennu, according to new computer simulations. Scientists have determined that such an impact would dramatically alter our ...

Scientists recently completed computer simulations of what would happen to Earth if it were impacted by an asteroid with a diameter the size of the 500-meter-wide Bennu. It’s not good. Why Bennu? Well ...

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Bennu, one of the largest asteroids, has been the subject of research and simulations in the event of an impact with our planet. Bennu is 500 meters wide and astronomers have predicted a one in ...

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(A view of eight sample trays containing the final material from asteroid Bennu.) Credit: NASA/Erika Blumenfeld & Joseph Aebersold Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing ...

They calculated that there is a very small chance — about 1-in-2700, or 0.037% to be exact — that asteroid Bennu, which is roughly the size of the Empire State Building, could collide with our ...

Scientists have confirmed the presence of organic molecules on the surface of the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, opening the door to the possibility that life on Earth arose from cosmic origins.