NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

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Bennu is classified as a “potentially hazardous asteroid,” meaning the object is more than 460 feet (140 meters) wide and could theoretically come within 4.65 million miles of Earth.

Asteroids are usually grouped into three main types based on what they are made of: C-type, S-type and M-type.

The world breathed a sigh of relief when NASA confirmed the asteroid was no longer likely to hit Earth. But scientists now ...

Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...

Researchers believe this 4.6-billion-year-old piece of rock could reveal compounds present at the beginning of the solar system and the building blocks of life.

A NASA spacecraft will fly by Earth on Sunday and drop off what is expected to be at least a cupful of rubble it grabbed from the asteroid Bennu, closing ...

There is a 1 in 2,700 chance the Bennu asteroid could hit Earth by 2182. An asteroid NASA's been tracking for nearly 25 years could impact Earth in the future, a new report reveals. First ...

I call Bennu the “trickster asteroid” because it constantly surprised us and ... Jawin, a geologist at the National Air and Space Museum's Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, was part of the ...