NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission uncovered a cosmic connection between asteroid Bennu and Earth’s Searles Lake. Both contain minerals formed by evaporating salty water, hinting that Bennu’s parent body once ...

Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing asteroid Bennu samples, some of the most pristine ever ...

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The potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu probably won't hit Earth. But this study shows the damage a space rock of its size could do.

After examining just 0.06% of a 120-gram material sample from the surface of asteroid Bennu ... 5 billion years ago. NASA's robotic OSIRIS-REx spacecraft journeyed to Bennu and in 2020 collected ...

A sample of dust and rocks ... an associate administrator at NASA, in a press release. The samples were delivered by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission—the first US project to bring asteroid samples home.

By Sage Rohrbach A mosaic image of the Bennu Asteriod, created using pictures from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx satellite that was near the asteroid for over two years. Courtesy of NASA via Wikimedia ...

Earth could face catastrophic consequences if hit by an asteroid similar to Bennu, according to new computer simulations.

In his inauguration speech in January, United States President Donald Trump declared the US would“plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars”. <p ...

Space billiards, nuclear weapons and X-rays: Can we deflect asteroid ... Bennu, opening the door to the possibility that life on Earth arose from cosmic origins. That is, according to NASA's ...