NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar ...

New simulations reveal that the climate, atmospheric chemistry and even global photosynthesis would be dramatically disrupted by an asteroid collision ...

The asteroid Bennu is puzzling ... been analysing clumps of rock from Bennu since NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft returned samples from the asteroid to Earth in 2023. They quickly found these ...

"The size of the Earth — which is inside the uncertainty area — is compared to the entire area of the uncertainty of where the asteroid could be in that critical moment in time. This equated ...

The US OSIRIS-REx mission (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security–Regolith Explorer) collected dust and rocks from asteroid Bennu and returned them to Earth in 2023.

and NASA has since calculated there is a 0.037 per cent – or one in 2,700 – chance that the asteroid will strike our planet on September 24 2182. If Bennu did hit Earth, it would trigger an ...

If you look at the fraction, the size of the Earth — which is inside the uncertainty area — is compared to the entire area of the uncertainty of where the asteroid could be in that critical ...

UPDATE Feb. 24, 2025: With new observations over the weekend, the odds of 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in ... which is key for asteroid observations. Asteroids are small and dark. Compared to moons ...

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and if the asteroid does veer off on a collision course with Earth, there are few ways to combat it. According to estimates, the asteroid, called 2024 YR4, had the highest chance of any asteroid ...

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...