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

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

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

This week, explore what lurks in asteroid dust, marvel at the world’s largest beaded burial, discover an elusive creature ...

Bennu’s highly unlikely impact with Earth—which could happen in 157 years—could cause a global winter and drought, modeling ...

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

However, Bennu, a 500-metre wide lump of rock, has been located by the boffins and their telescopes and they’ve given it a 1 ...

Imagine that the Earth was hit by an asteroid the size of the World Trade Center. What would happen? Scientists have modeled ...

The asteroid Bennu contains a lot of organic molecules, including many essential building blocks of life, according to a ...

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

However, even a Bennu-size asteroid could drastically reduce global food production and lead to worldwide climate change, the researchers said in the study, published Wednesday (Feb. 5) in the ...