Bennu is what we call an Earth-crossing asteroid, which means orbital path crosses right through Earth’s path. That means it has a potential risk if hitting us if that crossing occurs ...

That’s what a small group of scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory are trying to do with data recovered from a near-Earth asteroid ... was pulling on its orbital path.

That’s what a small group of scientists at Los Alamos National Labs are trying to do with data recovered from a near-Earth asteroid ... was pulling on its orbital path. Then, on the night ...

Orbital dynamics show that President Trump ... Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that shed light on how life ...

Every six years, an asteroid by the name of Bennu passes by Earth. Bennu is a small, loosely compacted ball of black rocks that formed nearly 4.6 billion years ago. Recently, scientists ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx set out to collect a pristine sample from asteroid Bennu, a cosmic time capsule that may hold clues to the origins of life in our solar system. But the journey was anything but easy.

The possibility of “city-killing” asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth is no longer a threat, but it could strike the moon, according to scientists. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) made the ...

In mid-February 2025 astronomers announced that 2024 YR4—a recently discovered asteroid big enough to severely damage or even destroy a city—stood a 3.1 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032.

Scientists found traces of briny water and salty minerals, similar to those on Europa and Enceladus, suggesting liquid water once flowed on Bennu. A new study suggests Bennu may have formed beyond ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 initially had a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but NASA revised the probability to almost zero. However, observations now suggest a 2% chance of it striking the moon ...