An asteroid that's big enough to wipe out a city has a 1-in-43 chance of hitting our planet in the year 2032. But according to new calculations, there's an even smaller chance that it might crash ...

What he had experienced was the fall of a meteorite. As Joshua Howgego explains in this richly informative, readable book, the Wold Newton meteorite marked a turning point in the story of how we ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 2.3% chance of hitting Earth in the year 2032. But according to new estimates, it may have an even smaller chance of hitting the moon instead. An asteroid that's big enough ...

said that the reason why the analysis results of Bennu were different from previous meteorite research and prior speculations was, 'Bennu is a fragile type of asteroid that cannot maintain its ...

In 2018, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission reached asteroid 101955 Bennu. Two years later, the spacecraft snagged a sample of its surface, which has since been returned to Earth. Now, astronomers are ...

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albeit the last hit to the planet was in 2013 by smaller Chelyabinsk Meteorite (66 foot diameter) that fell in Siberia, Russia that was still powerful enough to injure 1,500 people and damage ...

These brines likely also exist on other asteroids, and McCoy and his colleagues plan to reexamine meteorite specimens in the museum ... soluble organic matter in samples from asteroid (101955) Bennu” ...

NASA's watchful eye on the skies has recently spotted asteroid Bennu, a celestial body with a slim chance of impacting Earth. According to a study published in Science Advances, Bennu's odds of ...

WASHINGTON, USA – The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every six years at about 186,000 miles (299,000 km) away ...

The 120 g of material came from the near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu, which OSIRIS-REx visited in 2020. The findings “bolster the hypothesis that asteroids like Bennu could have delivered the raw ...

If the near-Earth asteroid Bennu were to collide with Earth in the future, the space rock could cause substantial global damage, even though it’s a fraction of the size of the asteroid that ...