It's a startlingly good look at an impact crater!" Could an asteroid this size hit Earth soon? The rubble pile asteroid Bennu is around 400m in diameter. It is considered the most hazardous object ...

"The immediate effects of a Bennu-sized asteroid impact would cause devastating damages ... behemoth that created the Chixulub crater and wiped out the dinosaurs about 66 million years ago.

The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula. But after analyzing deeply drilled rock core from the impact site ...

Scientists have discovered that a hydrothermal system created by the asteroid impact may have helped marine life flourish at the impact site by generating and circulating nutrients in the crater ...

About 66 million years ago, a city-sized asteroid struck Earth, creating a 100-mile-wide crater ... asteroid Bennu currently poses the greatest risk to Earth. Though the chance of impact is ...

NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces) of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert in 2023 before swooping off ...

Did a collision with a giant asteroid or comet change the shape ... Scientists have concluded that the impact that created this crater occurred 65 million years ago. The date corresponds perfectly ...

Researchers have been trying to explain its existence since the 1960s, and the most recent evidence suggests it was born from a cataclysmic meteorite impact. The crater was first detected as a ...