"Can humanity enjoy the benefits of both asteroid and lunar mining without compromise, or do we have to choose one at the ...

Bennu is also expected to pass closer to Earth than the moon in 2135 and if it does, our planet's gravitational pull could put it on the path to striking Earth on September 24, 2182.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captured this shot of the Earth and moon (left) and the asteroid Bennu (right) on Dec. 19, 2018. At the time, OSIRIS-REx was 71 million miles (114 million kilometers ...

Bennu was discovered in 1999 and is believed to be part of a larger asteroid that collided with another space rock. It’s about one-third of a mile wide and is roughly the height of the Empire ...

The orbit of asteroid Bennu (white) will intersect Earth's (blue) in September 2135, carrying it between Earth and the moon. NASA/Goddard/CBS News "There is no particular reason for concern," said ...

Previous predictions had found that Bennu will pass within 75,000 to 330,000 miles of Earth in 2135, possibly taking the asteroid closer to Earth than the moon. Bennu has practically no chance of ...

It passes by Earth every six years about 186,000 miles away, closer than the Moon. Bennu’s parent asteroid contained pockets of liquid water that evaporated, leaving behind brines of various ...

NASA is about to recover a cup's worth of rocks and dirt from the mysterious asteroid Bennu. Credit: NASA Over the past seven years, a NASA spacecraft has put 4.4 billion miles on the odometer as ...

The asteroid Bennu, captured by the OSIRIS-REX spacecraft in 2018, ... Earth, but it will come pretty close, to within 125,000 miles or so, or about half the distance from the Earth to the moon.

NASA finds key ingredients of life in asteroid samples 03:46. Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water ...

Ahead of an October 20 attempt to bring extraterrestrial rocks from an asteroid called Bennu to Earth, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has delivered new insights into its chemistry and geology. Bennu ...