Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global winter that affects our planet for years.

DART proved it's possible to move an asteroid, and that technology could certainly be scaled up enough by the time Bennu comes by - and if it looks like it will pose an actual danger. The post Bennu ...

A group of researchers based in South Korea drew up scenarios indicating how Earth’s climate and life on our planet would be affected by the impact of a medium-sized asteroid like Bennu.

New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking ...

Dust and other debris would rise into the atmosphere on Bennu striking Earth, blocking out the Sun and cooling the planet to devastating effect.

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 ...

(CNN) — If the near-Earth asteroid Bennu were to collide with Earth in ... in diameter and marked the last known large asteroid to hit the planet. Given the small but not impossible chance ...