Bennu has practically no chance of hitting Earth then, but depending on precisely when and where Bennu makes its close approach, our planet’s gravity could tweak the asteroid’s orbit enough to ...

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Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears to be a stony, non-metallic type of asteroid known as an ordinary ...

A series of images from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the spacecraft approach and touch down on asteroid Bennu’s surface, over 200 million miles away from Earth, to collect a sample on ...

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Bennu, one of the most dangerous near-Earth objects ... However, such a technique isn’t foolproof, as some scientists also believed that a planet named Vulcan existed between the Sun and Mercury. This ...

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For the museum exhibit, she whipped up the scent of Mars, which is her scientific specialty; Titan, a large moon orbiting the planet Saturn; Bennu, an asteroid; and Earth as it was some 3.5-4 ...

The world breathed a sigh of relief when NASA confirmed the asteroid was no longer likely to hit Earth. But scientists now warn that the threat posed by this space rock is far from over.