The asteroid Bennu is one of the most likely objects to collide with Earth – and a time capsule from the Solar System's early days. Nasa's Osiris-Rex mission has captured it in never-before-seen ...

Scientists and engineers at the University of Arizona have built a suite of cameras to guide NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to the asteroid Bennu, map its surface, identify a spot to grab a sample ...

Canada, one of the first countries with a satellite, supplied the laser, or OLA, used to measure and map Bennu. [MICHAEL]: This would be Canada's first sample return and some of the things that we ...

The samples from Bennu were gathered by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx ... of specific chemical bonds at the nanometer scale and map out the different chemicals found in the asteroid. The science team ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx went to Bennu equipped with the tools to map the ancient asteroid, a sort of time capsule of the early solar system, and collect rare samples of this nearly untouched material.

The samples from Bennu were gathered by NASA's OSIRIS-REx ... of specific chemical bonds at the nanometer scale and map out the different chemicals found in the asteroid. The science team ...

OSIRIS launched in September 2016 and arrived at Bennu two years later. After almost two more years to study and map the asteroid, scientists picked a spot and deployed a robot arm to retrieve the ...

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 ...

Researchers have spent thousands of hours peering through special electron microscopes, mapping each grain of material from Bennu. Each millimeter-sized grain takes about a month to map ...

The findings were modeled on near-Earth asteroid Bennu, considered by NASA to pose the highest risk to our planet in terms of proximity and impact. The asteroid measures 0.31 miles (0.5 kilometers ...

Samples of matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building blocks of life to Earth, scientists report in a pair of new studies published ...