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

Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

An asteroid believed to be up to 700metres wide will pass relatively close to Earth within days, and is being tracked by NASA ...

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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.

Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears to be a stony, non-metallic type of asteroid known as an ordinary ...

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.

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 ...

Asteroid Bennu, passes by Earth roughly every six years, experts have been closely watching it since it was discovered in September 1999. Veuer’s Maria Mercedes Galuppo has the story.

The world breathed a sigh of relief when NASA confirmed the asteroid was no longer likely to hit Earth. But scientists now warn that the threat posed by this space rock is far from over.

If a huge asteroid smashes into the Moon in 2032, the gigantic explosion would send debris streaming towards Earth that would ...