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

Earth could face catastrophic consequences if hit by an asteroid similar to Bennu, according to new computer simulations.

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

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing asteroid Bennu samples, some of the most pristine ever ...

On 20 October, 2020, a robot spacecraft took a sample of surface dust from asteroid Bennu. On 4 September, 2023, as it passed ...

The rocky object called Bennu is classified ... Asteroids have struck Earth occasionally over its long history, often with cataclysmic results. An asteroid estimated at 10-15km wide hit off ...

Asteroids the size of Bennu are believed to hit Earth every 100,000-200,000 years, so it is likely that our early ancestors have already survived one of these impacts. But what both Chicxulub and ...

A 500-metre-wide asteroid could strike Earth in 157 years and set off a chain ... but the research suggests humanity as a whole could survive if Bennu hit. Experts say that Bennu – at half ...

Look at it this way — there's almost a 99 per cent chance an asteroid up to the size of a football field won't hit ... Asteroid Bennu samples contain 'building blocks' of life on Earth ...

AN asteroid the size of a football pitch cannot be ignored, an expert has warned after its chances of hitting Earth increased. The discovery sparked plans that a nuclear weapon could be sent into ...