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NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...
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Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...
The proposed national US budget for 2026 contains a few nasty surprises for NASA, and some serious disappointments—among them ...
An asteroid believed to be up to 700metres wide will pass relatively close to Earth within days, and is being tracked by NASA ...
NASA predicts a large asteroid could impact Earth in the future, potentially affecting an area the size of Texas. Asteroid Bennu, passes by Earth roughly every six years, experts have been closely ...
Asteroids are usually grouped into three main types based on what they are made of: C-type, S-type and M-type.
An asteroid NASA's been tracking for nearly 25 years could impact Earth in the future, a new report reveals. First discovered in 1999, Bennu, the near-Earth asteroid, could possibly drift into the ...
I call Bennu the “trickster asteroid” because it constantly surprised us and ... Jawin, a geologist at the National Air and Space Museum's Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, was part of the ...
The little black fragment came from the near-Earth asteroid called Bennu. NASA launched a mission in 2016 to retrieve samples of the asteroid and brought them back two years ago.
New research by a University of Arizona-led team suggests two near-Earth asteroids — but Bennu and Ryugu — were actually sheared off and shaped by a by a single crash.