A report published in Science Advances details when the asteroid could collide with Earth and the destruction it would cause.

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The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every ...

Samples from asteroid Bennu were first brought to Earth in 2023. Now, NASA has published its key findings revealing that the cosmic traveler is carrying many of the key components for life.

An asteroid the size of One World Trade Center has a very small chance of crashing into Earth in the year 2182. But what ...

Simulations of a potential impact by a hill-sized space rock event next century have revealed the rough ride humanity would ...

Additionally, researchers uncovered salts in the Bennu cache and minerals crucial to life, including some never before seen in asteroid samples ... cyclolites live are typically high-energy ...

Asteroid Bennu has a diameter of about 500m, and, according to recent studies, could collide with Earth in September 2182. "This is similar to the probability of flipping a coin 11 times in a row ...

Paris (AFP) – Pristine samples of the asteroid Bennu transported to Earth contain the "basic building blocks" for life, shedding new light on the perennial question of how life began on our planet.