A Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) review of data collected from near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu supports the ...

A Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) review of data collected from near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu supports the ...

A groundbreaking study recently published in the Planetary Science Journalhas raised the possibility that asteroids Bennu, ...

NASA's spacecraft OSIRIS-REx has arrived at tiny distant asteroid 101955 Bennu safe and sound. The mission will collect samples from the distant asteroid and return them to Earth.

Nasa calculated that the 24 September 2182 as the date in which the 500 meter-wide Bennu is most likely to crash into the Earth. However, the chance of it happening is one in 2,700 (or about 0.037 ...

NASA scientists used a slingshot manoeuvre around the Earth in their mission to land a spacecraft on an asteroid. The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith ...

The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) has the mission of studying asteroid 101955 Bennu. OSIRIS-REx was launched on the back of an ...

NASA last updated its estimates of the planetary risks posed by Bennu in November 2021, with a paper entitled 'Ephemeris and hazard assessment for near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu based on ...

Known as 101955 Bennu – or simply Bennu – the asteroid, discovered in September 1999 is the size of five football fields and weighs approximately 79billion kg – 1,664 times as heavy as the ...

Asteroid 101955 Bennu – or simply Bennu – has a relatively high chance of crashing into Earth in 2135. At an estimated 500 metres in length, the mega rock would be unlikely to end life on ...

The asteroid, formally designated as 101955 Bennu, is blasting through space at 63,000 miles per hour and experts have warned of “dire” consequences if the 79 billion kilogram rock smashes ...

The giant space rock, 101955 Bennu, which was discovered in 1999, has a diameter of 1,600ft (500m) and orbits the Sun every six years at a speed of 63,000mph.