The mission saw the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft travelling to Bennu ... a true asteroid impact over a populated area. It was a ...

The Bennu sample results were not the only asteroid discovery announced ... blast damage if it hit Earth. Damage could occur as far as 50 km from the impact site. 2024 YR4, discovered by the ...

It's a startlingly good look at an impact crater!" Could an asteroid this size hit Earth soon? The rubble pile asteroid Bennu is around 400m in diameter. It is considered the most hazardous object ...

Discovered in 1999, asteroid Bennu currently poses ... odds for an impact in 2024. An impact would release 2.6 billion tons of TNT, causing considerable damage. Last observed in 1979, asteroid ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft had a mission in 2020: fly to Bennu, an asteroid about 200 million ... from the 2020 crash that left a 65-foot-wide impact crater was pretty wild, according to Lauretta.

The aluminum canister containing bits of an ancient space rock has finally been opened, revealing the bulk of the asteroid Bennu sample in ... spacecraft sustained damage on its way to the launch ...

In 2016, NASA embarked on a new and unique mission: sending the Osiris-REx spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid Bennu to study the rocky space object and collect samples to return to ...

Every six years, an asteroid by the name of Bennu passes by Earth. Bennu is a small, loosely compacted ball of black rocks that formed nearly 4.6 billion years ago. Recently, scientists ...

NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces) of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert in 2023 before swooping off after ...