Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The ...

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

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 ...

The first parts of the asteroid sample returned from Bennu in OSIRIS-REx. Image source ... NASA says there are also high levels of other water-bearing minerals, such as olivine, magnetite ...

In 2016, NASA embarked on a new and unique mission: sending the Osiris-REx spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid Bennu to study ... and rewards of this high-stakes undertaking.

A SwRI-led study found that the rocky fragments dominating the surface asteroid Bennu are weakly bound, exhibiting near-zero cohesion, probably due to size and low gravity of the small body.

asteroid Bennu. This discovery offers key insights into the early solar system and the origins of life. In the latest SETI Live, Communications Specialist Beth Johnson and NASA scientist Danny Glavin ...

(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 ...

(AP) — Asteroid samples fetched by NASA ... said one of the biggest surprises was the relatively high abundance of nitrogen, including ammonia. While all of the organic molecules found in the Bennu ...