If the near-Earth asteroid Bennu were to collide with Earth in the future, the space rock could cause substantial global damage, even though it’s a fraction of the size of the asteroid that ...

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.

That’s why NASA launched a mission to the near-Earth asteroid Bennu in 2016. In 2020, the OSIRIS-REx mission made history by ...

According to Barnes, within the last billion years, scientists think it was disrupted again, ultimately creating the near-Earth asteroid known as Bennu. Researchers have discovered minerals never ...

Not long ago, the idea of mining in space sounded like something out of a sci-fi novel. But today, it’s a field that ...