Researchers predict that a collision with the asteroid Bennu would plunge Earth into a year's long 'impact winter'.

A team of researchers have now modelled what will happen to the planet, climate and humans if this asteroid crashes on Earth ...

The asteroid, named Bennu, passes close to Earth every six years. It is listed as one of NASA’s “potentially hazardous ...

Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...

One of those is asteroid Bennu, the recent lucky target of an asteroid sample collection mission. In a mere 157 years – ...

Although the chances of impact are slim, Bennu is still one of the most potentially hazardous known asteroids in our solar ...

An asteroid the size of One World Trade Center has a very small chance of crashing into Earth in the year 2182. But what ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

Bennu’s highly unlikely impact with Earth—which could happen in 157 years—could cause a global winter and drought, modeling ...

Bennu has a diameter of roughly 500 meters (1,640 feet) and has a 1 in 2,700 chance of hitting our planet in September 2182.

A NASA mission collected the sample and brought it back in 2023, and scientists have found traces of ancient brine that contains minerals that are the raw ingredients of life.