An asteroid nearly the size of a football field ... but it would certainly be a disaster of every proportion. So we're all hoping that doesn't happen." Scientists aren't panicking yet, but they ...

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with Earth, a study has ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million ... into it from the side so scientists could handle the ...

"It's not possible to get a 'perfect' measurement of the asteroid from any telescope," he continued. "So all we can do then is plot all of the possible orbits that fit the given observational arc ...