Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 Bennu after the ... with a possible impact path on a line stretching ...

In 2016, NASA embarked on a new and unique mission: sending the Osiris-REx spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid Bennu to study the rocky space object and collect samples to return to ...

A sample from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu has been found to contain an abundance of water and carbon, reinforcing the theory that life on Earth was seeded from outer space. Just two weeks after ...

Once an asteroid has been ejected from its usual path and is potentially heading our ... collected dust and rocks from asteroid Bennu and returned them to Earth in 2023. Earlier this year, the ...

In mid-February 2025 astronomers announced that 2024 YR4—a recently discovered asteroid big enough to severely damage or even destroy a city—stood a 3.1 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx set out to collect a pristine sample from asteroid Bennu, a cosmic time capsule that may hold clues to the origins of life in our solar system. But the journey was anything but easy.

However, when the “orbital uncertainties” – the unknowns in predicting the exact path of an object – are taken into account, the asteroid has ... the 500-metre-wide Bennu, which experts ...

Material from an asteroid will "come screaming ... have analysed the material from Bennu, "it is unlikely that any aspect of its formation, evolution and orbital history, composition and ...

TASS/. Samples of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu revealed minerals and molecules that are key to life on Earth, NASA said. The analysis of the samples delivered by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins ...

while those of asteroid Bennu were taken by the U.S. probe Osiris-Rex. The findings were published Monday in the British journal Scientific Reports. The team, including university project ...