The asteroid, discovered in December 2024, is believed to measure between 40 metres and 90 metres. It was first given a ...

After asteroid 2024 YR4 first flew into view of NASA's Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in December 2024 ...

Artist's conception of the DART spacecraft approaching the Didymos asteroid system before deflecting the Dimorphos moonlet ...

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

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

A Bennu-type asteroid could lead to “severe environmental consequences,” researchers write, while acknowledging that a ...

The asteroid Bennu has been at the centre of scientific discussions recently, especially after researchers analysed surface samples collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. While much of the ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has confirmed that this near-Earth visitor poses no threat to our planet.

Overall, they write, a Bennu-type asteroid could lead to “severe environmental consequences,” reducing land photosynthesis by 36 percent and marine photosynthesis by 25 percent. That would in ...

The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every six years at about 186,000 miles (299,000 km) away. It might come even ...

YR4 has a 2.8% to 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Astronomers are tracking it to refine estimates of its size and orbit to see how much of a risk the space rock poses.