Analysis of samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu reveal that it has a bizarre chemical make-up and is ...

This set of stereoscopic images provides a 3D view of the large, 170-foot (52-meter) boulder that juts from asteroid Bennu's southern hemisphere and the rocky slopes that surround it. The stereo ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission returned 121.6 grams of sample from asteroid (101955) Bennu in September 2023 ... carbon and nitrogen—using high-resolution mass spectrometry at Kyushu University.

(CNN) — If the near-Earth asteroid Bennu were to collide with ... But if the iron content in Bennu is high and distributed across the ocean, it could trigger unprecedented blooms of algae ...

Discovered in 1999, asteroid Bennu currently poses the greatest risk ... Asteroid Apophis was once considered a high-risk object but was downgraded after a 2021 observation clarified its orbit.