If you were able to instantly (and safely) transport Bennu from space to the surface of Earth, it would collapse into a giant heap. Thus, Bennu is often referred to as a 'rubble pile' asteroid.

After examining just 0.06% of a 120-gram material sample from the surface of asteroid Bennu — which returned to Earth in Utah's west desert in September 2023 — a group of scientists has ...

Nearly 60 years later, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu, similar to the one that rained rocks over Revelstoke. Our research team has ...

The Goldstone Solar System Radar, part of NASA’s Deep Space Network, made these observations of the recently discovered 500-foot-wide (150-meter-wide) asteroid 2024 MK, which made its closest ...

It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it flew past Earth, which was then recovered in the desert of the U.S ...

First discovered in 1999, Bennu, the near-Earth asteroid, could possibly drift into the planet's orbit and could hit the planet by September 2182, according to the OSIRIS-REx science team.

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global winter that affects our planet for years.

Its contents: 122 grams of dust and rock from asteroid Bennu. The probe had collected this sample from the surface of the 500-metre agglomerate of unconsolidated material in a touch-and-go ...

Episodes of particle ejection from the surface of the active asteroid (101955) Bennu Object Details Author Lauretta, D. S. Hergenrother, C. W. Chesley, S. R. Leonard, J. M. Pelgrift, J. Y. Adam, C. D.

BROUGHT A SAMPLE FROM THE BENNU ASTEROID TO EARTH. IN THIS PAST WEEK, RESEARCHERS SHARED THAT THE ASTEROID ACTUALLY CONTAINS THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF LIFE. THE ASTEROID HAD A BRINY BROTH, THAT BROTH ...

The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every six years at about 186,000 miles (299,000 km) away. So what would happen ...

First discovered in 1999, Bennu, the near-Earth asteroid, could possibly drift into the planet's orbit and could hit the planet by September 2182, according to the OSIRIS-REx science team.