Which asteroids pose the greatest threat to Earth? How likely are they to strike, and what level of destruction could they ...

In 2016, NASA embarked on a new and unique mission: sending the Osiris-REx spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid Bennu to study the rocky space object and collect samples to return to ...

When NASA's DART spacecraft collided with an asteroid moon, no one could anticipate the profound changes that happened next.

The asteroid sample, coded A0180, was collected by the Japanese Space Agency’s (JAXA) Hayabusa 2 probe in 2018. This mission ...

Reusing the spacecraft from the OSIRIS-REx mission, which previously collected samples from the asteroid Bennu, OSIRIS-APEX will observe Apophis for 18 months after its approach. This mission ...

From an orbit of over 186,000 miles from Earth, to Utah’s Great Salt Lake Desert, to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, to College Hill: That’s the path that samples from the asteroid Bennu, ...

NASA's OSIRIS-Rex mission (now OSIRIS-APEX) spent a couple of years hanging out next to the asteroid Bennu before dipping down to take a sample and return it to Earth. And NASA's DART mission ...

In 2020, a NASA spacecraft retrieved samples from the asteroid Bennu and dropped them off on Earth in 2023. The space agency followed similar protocols to JAXA to protect the asteroid material ...

Here are five asteroids that pose the greatest risk to Earth. Discovered in 1999, asteroid Bennu currently poses the greatest risk to Earth. Though the chance of impact is only 0.037% (1 in 2,700 ...

Near-Earth asteroids like Bennu are closely monitored due to their ... The research team plans to apply their techniques to the Apophis asteroid, which will pass close to Earth in 2029.

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned asteroid samples, enabling a vast observation campaign that provided new insights into ...