OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will launch September 2016 and travel to a near-Earth asteroid known as Bennu to harvest a sample of surface maNASA to Map the Surface of an Asteroid NASA’s OSIRIS-REx ...

For the study, the researchers used a transmission electron microscope at Goethe University to analyze grains that were part of the 122 grams (0.27 pounds) of dust samples returned to Earth by NASA’s ...

Bennu — a rubble pile just one-third of a mile (one-half of a kilometer) across — was originally part of a much larger asteroid that got clobbered by other space rocks.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission returned 121.6 grams of sample from asteroid (101955) Bennu in September 2023—the largest sample ever returned to Earth. Now, an international team of OSIRIS-REx sample ...

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 ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar system. These findings can now provide information into the potential ...

Samples brought back to Earth from asteroid "Bennu" in 2023 have been found to contain crucial building blocks for life—including amino acids and all five DNA and RNA nucleobases. The findings ...

Bennu — a rubble pile just one-third of a mile (one-half of a kilometer) across — was originally part of a much larger asteroid that got clobbered by other space rocks. The latest results ...

Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source and Molecular Foundry provided powerful tools to study asteroid samples returned by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. Researchers found that asteroid Bennu ...

They showed images of Bennu snapped by OSIRIS-REx on Oct. 29 from 205 miles away — a little less than the distance between Los Angeles and Las Vegas — using the multi-functional PolyCam camera ...

The difference is that Bennu’s chemical footprint dates back to the start of the solar system 4.6 billion years ago, around 100 million years before Bennu’s parent asteroid formed.

Sandpiper is located in Bennu’s southern hemisphere, at 47 degrees south latitude. The site is in a relatively flat area on the wall of a large crater 207 ft (63 m) in diameter.