Hakan Kilic and his family recently unwrapped a portrait of his mother-in-law that was made from her cremated ashes, the ...

Kenya's urban street artists have teamed up to add an African-inspired twist to East Africa's first Museum of Illusions in ...

In 2016, NASA launched the spacecraft OSIRIS-REx towards the near-earth asteroid Bennu. The spacecraft managed to make contact in 2020, collecting samples which returned in 2023. Those samples ...

Astronomers are also closely watching the asteroid Bennu (.5 kilometers). This asteroid was the target of the 2023 OSIRIS-REx mission, which proved that a spacecraft could retrieve samples of space ...

Margaret Hamilton, lead Apollo flight software design, standing next to listings of the Apollo Guidance Computer source code. Courtesy NASA/Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.

Bennu’s potential collision with Earth is a remote but unsettling possibility, according to a new study. Bennu is about 500 metres wide—taller than the Empire State Building and as wide as ...

Art provides diversification in portfolios, exhibiting a low price correlation with stocks and bonds. As an investment, art can hedge against inflation, but expect bond-level returns. Investors ...

Earth could face catastrophic consequences if hit by an asteroid similar to Bennu, according to new computer simulations. Scientists have determined that such an impact would dramatically alter our ...

Scientists recently completed computer simulations of what would happen to Earth if it were impacted by an asteroid with a diameter the size of the 500-meter-wide Bennu. It’s not good. Why Bennu? Well ...

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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 ...

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 IBS Center for Climate Physics ...