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 ...

(THE CONVERSATION) A bright fireball streaked across the sky above mountains, glaciers and spruce forest near the town of Revelstoke in British Columbia, Canada, on the evening of March 31, 1965.

Scientists have discovered that the asteroid Bennu contains the chemical ingredients of life, supporting the theory of their cosmic origin. The asteroid Bennu, studied by scientists, has proved to ...

With the return of an Asteroid Bennu sample in 2023 as part of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, researchers from the University of Arizona have made significant discoveries toward understanding the ...

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.

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 ...

The Osiris-Rex mission, one of NASA's most daring ventures, involved collecting samples from the asteroid Bennu. The probe used a robotic arm to gather material from the surface of the asteroid ...

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’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 after ...

Bennu, an asteroid the size of the Empire State Building, has a 1-in-2700 chance of hitting Earth in 2182. 'A new eye on the Sun': NASA's PUNCH to track solar storms in stunning 3D ‘When space ...