A collision with a medium-size asteroid could create widespread “devastation” on Earth’s surface, according to ... One of them, Bennu, has a 1-in-2,700 chance of colliding with Earth in ...

After initially arriving at the space rock known as Bennu in early ... adjusted to better reveal surface features.” To give you a better sense of the size of the asteroid and the smaller objects ...

Scientists recently completed computer simulations of what would happen to Earth if it were impacted by an asteroid with a ...

cold temperature and decreased precipitation at the surface." Senior author of the study Axel Timmermann said: "The likelihood that a Bennu-sized asteroid will strike Earth is quite small at 0.037 ...

The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were all five of the basic building block for life — Guanine, Cytosine, Adenine, ...

Asteroid Bennu is thought to be made of rubble fragments from a 4.5-billion-year-old parent body, containing materials that originated beyond Saturn, which was destroyed long ago in a collision ...

This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the asteroid’s surface. NASA/Goddard ...

Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing asteroid Bennu samples, some of the most pristine ever ...

The impact of a Bennu-sized object — a medium-sized asteroid — on Earth's land surface would generate a powerful shockwave, earthquakes, wildfires and thermal radiation, leave a gaping crater ...

This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of ... returned 122 grams of dust and rock from Bennu to Earth, collected during a brief surface maneuver in 2020. Analysis by over 40 institutions ...

Bennu is a potentially hazardous asteroid that has a 1-in-2,700 chance of striking ... This enabled the team to study features on the sample's surface with a resolution of one-hundredth the width of a ...

An asteroid with a 1 in 2,700 chance of hitting us could cause a catastrophic winter. Researchers have modeled the potential consequences of medium-sized space rock Bennu striking Earth ... winter" ...