President Donald Trump's NASA nominee Jared Isaacman is seen during a U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation confirmation hearing on Wednesday, April 09, 2025.

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An international team of scientists put the idea to the test thanks to mountains of data regarding OSIRIS-REx’s recent asteroid target Bennu.

The team focused on periods when researchers knew OSIRIS-REx’s position relative to Bennu to within a meter (3.3 feet), based on images the spacecraft was taking of the asteroid’s surface.

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The little black fragment came from the near-Earth asteroid called Bennu. NASA launched a mission in 2016 to retrieve samples of the asteroid and brought them back two years ago.

The Brief. The Field Museum received a rare, pristine sample of asteroid Bennu from NASA — a "time capsule" from the early solar system, untouched for 4.6 billion years.

According to NASA, the Webb data refined the asteroid's projected location on December 22, 2032, by nearly 20%. This revised number has thus nudged the probability of a lunar collision from 3.8% ...