The near-Earth asteroid Bennu poses a potential threat of collision with Earth. New research shows that an impact could cause drastic climate changes, leading to 'impact winter' and severe ozone ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 swept into view of the asteroid warning system, called ATLAS, in December last year. Astronomers then calculated that the space lump will make a super close approach to Earth in 2032 ...

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

NASA classifies Bennu as a medium-sized asteroid, measuring about one-third of a mile (500 metres) across. While far smaller ...

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

YR4, which was recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years, may have caused ...

The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were ...

The latest discovery, unveiled by the NASA on January 29, came as a bit of a surprise and posed many exciting questions such ...

Scientists from NASA and other institutions who have been analyzing the Bennu asteroid sample that returned to Earth last ...

This increases the odds life could have formed on other planets and moons. These building blocks for life detected in the Bennu samples have been found before in extraterrestrial rocks.

However, the 74 million tonne space rock, which was first discovered in 1999, could potentially strike Earth in around one ...