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The artifact is the fifth intact Herculaneum ... but scientists believe it may contain one particular ingredient. If the asteroid Bennu were to collide with Earth, which it has a 1 in 2,700 ...

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Mass is a challenging concept to tie down, yet it is one of the most crucial measurements in our world. Since the 1800's, we've used a physical artifact as a standard for mass calibration across the ...

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

The potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu probably won't hit Earth. But this study shows the damage a space rock of its size could do.

Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing asteroid Bennu samples, some of the most pristine ever ...

A sample of dust and rocks from an asteroid just took us closer to an answer. Collected from Bennu, a space rock shaped like a spinning top, as it soared by Earth roughly five years ago, the samples ...

They calculated that there is a very small chance — about 1-in-2700, or 0.037% to be exact — that asteroid Bennu, which is roughly the size of the Empire State Building, could collide with our ...