Bennu, an asteroid the size of the Empire State Building, has a 1-in-2700 chance of hitting Earth in 2182. 'A new eye on the Sun': NASA's PUNCH to track solar storms in stunning 3D ‘When space ...

In 2018, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission reached asteroid 101955 Bennu ... size. That is to say, even if it's not Bennu headed our way, we might want to know what we are in for. Related: These 5 impact ...

Among them, the asteroid Bennu, with a diameter ... Researcher Lan Dai commented, "The impact of asteroid collisions on the environment depends on the size of the colliding body," adding, "The ...

(CNN) — If the near-Earth asteroid Bennu were to collide with Earth in the future, the space rock could cause substantial global damage, even though it’s a fraction of the size of the asteroid ...

Imagine that the Earth was hit by an asteroid the size of ... asteroid Bennu, an object that NASA considers to pose the greatest risk to our planet in terms of visibility and impact.

OSIRIS-REx collected more than double the amount of surface material, as the targeted sample size was 60 g. The spacecraft left Bennu for Earth ... with a possible impact path on a line stretching ...