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NASA(NEW YORK) -- An asteroid NASAs been tracking for nearly 25 years could impact Earth in the future, a new report reveals. First discovered in 1999, Bennu, the near-Earth asteroid, could possibly drift into the planets orbit and could hit the planet by September 2182, according to the OSIRIS-REx science team. Bennu passes near Earth every six years and has had three close encounters with Earth in 1999, 2005, and 2011, experts said in the ScienceDirect study. There is a 1 in 2,700, or 0.037% c...

A massive asteroid the size of the Empire State Building could hit Earth in 159 years, and NASA scientists will get their first up-close glimpse of a piece of it this weekend.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx traveled to potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu, gathered a sample, and is now coming home.

NASA has set a schedule for coverage of its first asteroid sampling mission's return to earth. The Origins, Spectral interpretation, Resource Identification and Security - Regolith Explorer (OSIriS-REx) samples capsule i

A sample from Bennu will return to Earth after a yearslong voyage and land in the Utah desert on Sunday

OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is expected to drop 250g of pebbles and dust from asteroid Bennu after seven-year quest.

NASA has announced that the agency's first asteroid sample it has collected in space will arrive on Earth before the end of this week.

The return capsule of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to touch down in Utah on Sept. 24, bearing samples of asteroid Bennu. Here's how to watch the event live.

Studying bits of asteroid Bennu can tell us about Earth's past—and potentially help future humans prepare for collisions.

Studying pieces of asteroid Bennu in a lab could help unravel the chemical origins of life on Earth.