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

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with Earth, a study has ...

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 ...

The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...

A scoop of dust from an ancient time capsule hurtling through space has forced a rethink of how inert matter became all that ...

Nearly 60 years later, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample ... Bennu’s rocks formed 4.5 billion years ago on a larger parent asteroid. That asteroid was wet and muddy ...

NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces) of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert in 2023 before swooping off ...

A portion of the asteroid Bennu sample delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, set into a microscope slide at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Credit: Molly ...

TEMPLE, Texas — New samples from an asteroid could suggest ... but finding them in a "pristine sample" in space suggests that objects formed far from the sun, like Bennu, could have been an ...

A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered ... colleagues using the museum’s state-of-the-art scanning electron microscope. This ...