At Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, “Near Earth Asteroids: Dr. Anne Virkki” tells the story of Research Scientist Anne Virkki and her ongoing studies on asteroids and their threat to humanity.

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

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

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

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 ...

Bennu is classified as a near-Earth ... is the average Earth-Sun distance of 93 million miles [150 million kilometers]). The space rock was “tagged” by OSIRIS-REx mission in 2020, when the ...

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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 ...

Former US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Lindley Johnson was eventually put in charge of Nasa's Near ... Earth Object (NEO) division after first suggesting in the 1990s that the Air Force track ...

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 ...