"Within those cracks evaporation occurred, water was lost to the surface ... is an energy-dispersive spectrometry map of an unprepared grain of asteroid Bennu. Phosphorous is shown in green ...

NASA's groundbreaking mission to an asteroid A mission called OSIRIS-REx landed on an asteroid named Bennu in 2020, jammed its arm into the rock's surface ... a month to map, McCoy said, because ...

But the Bennu sample ... scientists to map the tiny asteroid in three dimensions, helping with the selection of a site where the spacecraft could safely contact the surface and grab a sample.

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 images taken by ... of specific chemical bonds at the nanometer scale and map out the different chemicals found in the asteroid.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission has an historic opportunity to closely observe the asteroid Apophis and improve our ability to ...

Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing asteroid Bennu samples, some of the most pristine ever ...

The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every ...

In 2018, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission reached asteroid 101955 Bennu. Two years later, the spacecraft snagged a sample of its surface, which has since been returned to Earth. Now, astronomers are ...

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.