Dec. 3, 2018: OSIRIS-REx arrives at asteroid Bennu. Dec. 31, 2019: OSIRIS-REx begins orbiting Bennu. Oct. 20, 2020: Sample collected from Bennu. April 7, 2021: Final flyover of Bennu.

How Bennu could hit the Earth Bennu, categorized as a Near-Earth Object (NEO), could pass through a "gravitational keyhole" in the year 2182, causing it to collide with Earth, said NASA.

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with the Earth in September 2182, new research has discovered.

The spacecraft reached Bennu in 2018 after traveling 320 million kilometers from Earth. It spent two years mapping its surface, then collected a 120g sample before landing back on Earth in 2023.

Bennu’s reaction to OSIRIS-REx’s touchdown also had scientists puzzled. After briefly interacting with the asteroid, the spacecraft left a 26-foot (8-meter) wide crater.

Specifically, it has a 1-in-2,700 chance (that’s just 0.037 percent) of hitting Earth in 2182. Bennu is just over ⅓ mile, or 560 meters, in diameter.

A near-Earth asteroid named Bennu has a loosely packed surface similar to a pit of plastic balls, according to NASA scientists. A spacecraft collected a sample from the asteroid in October 2020 ...

The return capsule containing a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is seen shortly after touching down in the desert at the Department of ...

The results of this first Bennu analysis, NASA says, show that the asteroid has likely experienced multiple water-related episodes before it coalesced into the mess of debris we know today.

An early analysis of a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu suggests that the space rock had an unexpectedly water-rich past — and it may have even splintered off from an ancient ocean world ...

But is it going to hit? And why does September 24, 2182 keep getting mentioned? First of all, Bennu was largely chosen for a visit by NASA's OSIRIS-REx due to the excellent radar data and ...

Bennu comes close to Earth once every six years, and orbits at an average speed of around 63,000 miles per hour. It takes about 1.2 years to fully orbit the sun and rotates once every 4.3 hours ...