In 2018, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission reached asteroid 101955 Bennu. Two years later, the spacecraft snagged a sample of its surface, which has since been returned to Earth. Now, astronomers are ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 Bennu after the mission returned its samples to Earth in 2023.

Secured inside that delivery was over 120 grams of material collected directly from 101955 Bennu, a large near-Earth asteroid that NASA ranks as one of the biggest potential impact threats we know ...

The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists, with samples from the space rock showing weirder properties than they expected. These include extremely high nitrogen levels and improbably magnetic ...

Your browser does not support the video element. The asteroid Bennu just keeps getting more bizarre. When NASA decided to send a probe to land on a space rock and ...

September of 2023 was an exciting month for space exploration when OSIRIS-REx finally returned to Earth, dropping off the samples it had collected from the potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu.

The asteroid Bennu is a celestial body with an average diameter of about 560 meters that was discovered in 1999. It is said that it will approach Earth many times over the course of about 200 ...

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 ...