Space agencies around the world are tasked with locating, studying and analysing the trajectories of cosmic objects that pose ...

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

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

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

Scientists simulated what would happen if a medium-size asteroid were to strike Earth. One of those space rocks, asteroid ...

In an update issued on February 7, NASA said the probability of 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth had gone from around 1.2 percent (one-in-83) to 2.3 percent (one-in-43).

In a recent study, scientists at the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) at Pusan National University in South Korea ...

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with the Earth in September 2182, new research has discovered. The IBS Center for Climate Physics ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 images taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from ... [+] a range of 15 miles. As wide as The Eiffel Tower is tall, the asteroid Bennu is a ...

A new climate modeling study published in the journal Science Advances by researchers from the IBS Center for Climate Physics ...

If the near-Earth asteroid Bennu were to collide with Earth in the future, the space rock could cause substantial global damage, even though it’s a fraction of the size of the asteroid that ...