A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting ...
An asteroid strike could cool the planet's climate, harm crops, and disrupt food supply, but it may also increase plankton ...
The Earth could be sent into an "impact winter" if it is hit by the 500 metre wide Bennu asteroid where dust would be kicked ...
Researchers predict that a collision with the asteroid Bennu would plunge Earth into a year's long 'impact winter'.
A new climate modeling study presents a new scenario of how climate and life on our planet would change in response to a potential future strike of a medium-sized (~500 m) asteroid.
Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...
Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.
An asteroid the size of One World Trade Center has a very small chance of crashing into Earth in the year 2182. But what ...
Bennu has a diameter of roughly 500 meters (1,640 feet) and has a 1 in 2,700 chance of hitting our planet in September 2182.