In 2016, NASA embarked on a new and unique mission: sending the Osiris-REx spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid Bennu to study the rocky space object and collect samples to return to ...

Bennu was shaped by violent space events. Its rubble-pile structure holds materials from the solar system’s earliest moments. Curtin’s state-of-the-art instruments validated extraterrestrial ...

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 ...