Asteroid 2024 YR4 swept into view of the asteroid warning system, called ATLAS, in December last year. Astronomers then calculated that the space lump will make a super close approach to Earth in 2032 ...

The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...

With serpentine necks, flippers and a mouth full of needle-sharp teeth, plesiosaurs have captured imaginations since ...

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

In a recent study, scientists at the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) at Pusan National University in South Korea ...

Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...

Although the chances of impact are slim, Bennu is still one of the most potentially hazardous known asteroids in our solar ...

The U.S. Navy has developed a directed-energy weapon that can intercept unmanned drones and possibly cruise missiles while ...

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

An asteroid the size of One World Trade Center has a very small chance of crashing into Earth in the year 2182. But what ...

Bennu’s highly unlikely impact with Earth—which could happen in 157 years—could cause a global winter and drought, modeling ...

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.