If Bennu does impact Earth, it would create a crater between 10 to 20 times its size and cause an area of devastation that could reach 100 times the size of the crater, said Lindley Johnson ...

So far, astronomers and curators have cataloged more than 1,000 Bennu samples, the report states. And that’s only counting those that are at least half a millimeter in size. Josh Hawkins has ...

The size of a football stadium ... conducted at Nasa - assisted by Dr King - showed the black, extra-terrestrial Bennu material to be full of carbon and water-laden minerals.

The samples had been scooped up from the surface of asteroid Bennu in 2020 by the Osiris-Rex spacecraft. Nasa wants to learn more about the mountainous object, not least because it has an outside ...