The researchers published their study, which is the first to model Earth’s climate after an asteroid impact, in Science Advances. Bennu is a relatively small near-Earth asteroid that makes a ...

A new particle such as an ultralight boson might represent an extension of the Standard Model to ... build on their Bennu work in the future with the tracking of the Apophis asteroid, which ...

However, even a Bennu-size asteroid could drastically reduce global ... certain types of ocean algae may blossom, the model showed. The researchers said that these algae could offer an alternative ...

If the near-Earth asteroid Bennu were to collide with Earth in the ... Next, the researchers plan to model the responses early humans may have had to asteroid strikes, simulating their life ...

After running several scenarios using their model, the researchers found that ... The study "Climatic and ecological responses to Bennu-type asteroid collisions" was published in the journal ...

China’s Tianwen-2 launched on a sample return mission to asteroid Kamo’oalewa, before heading out for a visit with the Comet ...

A training model of the sample return capsule during ... views a portion of the asteroid Bennu sample in the center’s astrobiology lab under a microscope in November 2023, shortly after it ...

With the return of an Asteroid Bennu sample in 2023 as part of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, researchers from the University of Arizona have made significant discoveries toward understanding the ...