Potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid Bennu, the subject of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission that's set to return to to Earth Sunday morning, could strike our planet a little more than 150 years from ...

The mission marked NASA's first attempt to land on an asteroid and return a sample of one of these curious bodies back to Earth. Bennu orbits the Sun every 436.6 days. It is a rare, B-type ...

A NASA spacecraft returned to Earth on Sunday after a years-long mission to a nearby asteroid. A capsule containing pieces from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu separated from the spacecraft known as ...

Asteroid Bennu is a potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid that was studied by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission from 2018 to 2021.

NASA scientists are keeping a close eye on asteroid Bennu, a 1,610-foot-wide cosmic object that could smash into our planet. If Bennu were to hit the Earth, it would slam into the surface at about ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

Bennu comes within a mere 0.002 Astronomical Units to Earth every six years, and there is a very small chance it will collide with our planet in about 150 years' time.

Humans might need to look up as this asteroid is expected to make a close encounter with Earth in the future. ... 2020, to collect samples and information about Bennu, NASA said.

NASA unveils sample scooped from surface of near-Earth asteroid Bennu. US space agency and scientists say sample taken from Bennu contains abundant water and carbon, as well as iron minerals.

First discovered in 1999, Bennu is a near-Earth asteroid that passes near the planet every six years, deemed an important target of study during NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to collect information ...

In the late 22nd century, sometime between 2170 and 2200, Bennu has a slim chance of hitting Earth. It’s “a small percentage, but not nothing,” Dworkin notes.