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

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 ...

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

When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...

(NASA) In a major twist to the study of life beyond Earth, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said earlier this week that samples collected from asteroid Bennu contained a ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission launched in 2016. Its main aim was to study Bennu and retrieve samples to bring back to Earth. The spacecraft reached Bennu in 2018 after traveling 320 million kilometers ...

Credit: Molly Wasser, GSFC, NASA About four and a half years ago, a spacecraft called OSIRIS-REx touched down on the surface of an asteroid called Bennu. It drilled down and scooped up samples of rock ...

a senior scientist for sample return at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and a co-author of the two papers. In 2016, NASA launched OSIRIS-REx, a robotic probe, to Bennu in order to gather ...

But samples taken directly out of an asteroid like Bennu, which has been floating around in the cold vacuum of space for billions of years, preserve a pristine ancient snapshot. Water and a high ...

NASA stated that studies of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu that were taken by the ... Resource Identification and Security–Regolith Explorer) spacecraft have found molecules that, on Earth ...

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft returned triumphantly to Earth in 2023 after collecting 4.3 ounces (121.6 grams) of precious grains of dust and rock from the asteroid Bennu in 2020. While that sample ...