Although the chances of impact are slim, Bennu is still one of the most potentially hazardous known asteroids in our solar ...

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

Are we extraterrestrial? Something was recently discovered by NASA on a near-Earth asteroid. They are Organic Molecules On ...

China has begun recruiting for a planetary defense force after risk assessments determined that an asteroid could conceivably ...

For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit ...

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

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Scientists Predict Devastation if Asteroid Bennu Strikes Earth ... near the dawn of the solar system roughly 4.5 billion years ago. NASA's robotic OSIRIS-REx spacecraft journeyed to Bennu and in ...

Recruitment drive comes amid increasing focus on an asteroid with a low — but growing — likelihood of hitting earth in seven ...

The odds are about 1% that the football field-sized object could hit the Earth, but that makes it the closest call in more ...

The U.S. space agency's robotic OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2020 collected the samples from the near ... Earth. In the early solar system, planets including Earth and various moons were pelted by ...

NASA has a Moon collision down in their future estimates and hasn’t ruled out the potential for it hitting Earth ...