It’s a veritable hand of god, looming in orbit near our planet, capable of destroying life as we know it. Lauretta’s not wrong, of course — nor does this villainous portrait of Bennu come as ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 Bennu after the mission returned its samples to Earth in 2023.

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 ...