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Scientists recently completed computer simulations of what would happen to Earth if it were impacted by an asteroid with a ...

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

They orbit the sun and come in many different shapes, sizes and chemical compositions. Asteroid Bennu was targeted for the OSIRIS-REx mission because remote sensing observations from Earth indicated ...

This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 images taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from ... [+] a range of 15 miles. As wide as The Eiffel Tower is tall, the asteroid Bennu is a ...

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with the Earth in September 2182, new research has discovered. The IBS Center for Climate Physics ...

Samples of matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building blocks of life to Earth, scientists report in a pair of new studies published ...

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 ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt ... mission to an asteroid A mission called OSIRIS-REx landed on an asteroid named Bennu in 2020, jammed its arm into the rock's surface, and scooped ...

REx mission has an historic opportunity to closely observe the asteroid Apophis and improve our ability to defend against ...

They orbit the sun and come in many different shapes, sizes and chemical compositions. Asteroid Bennu was targeted for the OSIRIS-REx mission because remote sensing observations from Earth ...

The study "Climatic and ecological responses to Bennu-type asteroid collisions" was published in the journal Science Advances on Feb. 5.