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 ...

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.

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 ...

And it could make even bigger news next century. Potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid Bennu, the subject of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission that's set to return to to Earth Sunday morning ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

mapping each grain of material from Bennu. Each millimeter-sized grain takes about a month to map, McCoy said, because it "probably realistically has at least 10,000 mineral grains in it ...