OSIRIS-REx isn't done yet. After swinging past Earth to drop off the Bennu Sample, it is now headed out to intercept the orbit of asteroid Apophis. In doing so, OSIRIS-REx was officially renamed ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar ...

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

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...

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

Bennu is just the latest body in the Solar ... asteroid ever achieved on the Torino Scale happened in 2004 when asteroid 99942 Apophis reached a rating of four before further observations ...

Bennu is a pretty ordinary carbonaceous ... NASA has renamed in OSIRIS-APEX, and it’s now preparing to intercept the asteroid Apophis. This time the mission isn’t primarily to ...

NASA spacecraft touched down on the rugged surface of the Bennu asteroid on Tuesday, grabbing a sample of rocks dating back to the birth of our solar system to bring home. The minivan-sized OSIRIS ...

If you've been losing sleep at night over a certain threatening asteroid dominating the news ... even prompted no shortage of comparisons to Apophis, its much larger cousin that gave humanity ...

Astronomers said the threat posed by Asteroid 2024 YR4 now exceeds the threat posed by the widely known 2004 Apophis asteroid. YR4 still has a 97% chance of missing Earth, but the 3.1% chance it will ...

Astronomers said the threat posed by Asteroid 2024 YR4 now exceeds the threat posed by the widely known 2004 Apophis asteroid. YR4 still has a 97% chance of missing Earth, but the 3.1% chance it ...