This asteroid is one of the most likely to hit Earth. Here’s what it means for our future. New ultraprecise measurements show that the asteroid Bennu has a higher chance than thought of ...

Asteroid Bennu is a Near-Earth Object (sometimes called an NEO) that orbits around the Sun every 436.6 days and comes within a close distance of 0.002 AU from Earth every six years.

In 2135, Bennu will zoom past Earth just close enough that our planet’s gravitational pull could affect it in just the right way to put it on a path to hit us on Sept. 24, 2182 — almost 159 ...

The Goldstone Solar System Radar, part of NASA’s Deep Space Network, made these observations of the recently discovered 500-foot-wide (150-meter-wide) asteroid 2024 MK, which made its closest ...

It's a nearby asteroid to earth, so you don't have to go too far to get to Bennu and back," said Giada Arney, NASA Planetary Scientist. It took about two years to reach Bennu.

Scientists created this mosaic of asteroid Bennu using imagery collected by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. The asteroid spans about 1,600 feet (500 meters) across.

After about two decades of planning and seven years of out-and-back space travel, NASA plans to land a sample from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu in Utah's northwestern desert this fall. The sample ...

Asteroid Bennu could provide answers to how life on Earth originated, and whether life could exist elsewhere in the universe PROVIDENCE — At Brown University’s NASA Reflectance Experiment ...

Bennu earned the nickname "the trickster asteroid" during OSIRIS-Rex's spaceflight. Scientists believed when the spacecraft touched down to collect the sample three years ago, it would encounter ...

NASA scientists are predicting a chance that asteroid Bennu will strike Earth in the future, potentially affecting an area the size of Texas. Skip to content. Fox 8 Cleveland WJW.

Scientists studying the sample collected in 2023 from asteroid Bennu have announced a dramatic finding: they have identified ...