Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were ...

The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every ...

A report published in Science Advances details when the asteroid could collide with Earth and the destruction it would cause.

NASA's watchful eye on the skies has recently spotted asteroid Bennu, a celestial body with a slim chance of impacting Earth.

Bennu, which comes closest to Earth every six years at a distance of 299,000 km, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission uncovered a cosmic connection between asteroid Bennu and Earth’s Searles Lake. Both contain minerals formed by evaporating salty water, hinting that Bennu’s parent body once ...

Bennu has a diameter of roughly 500 meters (1,640 feet) and has a 1 in 2,700 chance of hitting our planet in September 2182.

When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...

An asteroid impact today could be devastating. But a few billion years ago, an impact may have helped life exist. Scientists ...

Researchers predict that a collision with the asteroid Bennu would plunge Earth into a year's long 'impact winter'.

A group of researchers based in South Korea drew up scenarios indicating how Earth’s climate and life on our planet would be affected by the impact of a medium-sized asteroid like Bennu.