In September 2023, we reported on the conclusion of the first phase of the OSIRIS-Rex (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer) as its return sample ...

Bennu, designated a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid due to its size and Earth-crossing orbit, has a 1-in-1,750 chance of hitting Earth on Sept. 24, 2182. Neither 2024 YR4 nor Bennu are near the ...

At the same time, Bennu was also flinging marble-size bits of rock away from its surface. Those crumbs entered orbit around the asteroid, and then some of them fell back to its surface.

Now a different group has looked at its orbital past, suggesting a likely place of origin: the middle of the main asteroid ...

The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists, with samples from the space rock showing weirder properties than they expected. These include extremely high nitrogen levels and improbably magnetic ...

A capsule carrying precious samples from asteroid Bennu landed on Earth on Sunday ... Space Station send a festive message from orbit, some 250 miles (400km) above Earth. Elizabeth Rizzini ...

A new study suggests Bennu may have formed beyond Saturn’s orbit, carrying materials from the coldest regions of the solar system. Berkeley Lab plans further infrared and X-ray analysis of Bennu ...

"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our solar system." ...

In 2016, NASA embarked on a new and unique mission: sending the Osiris-REx spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid Bennu to study the rocky space object and collect samples to return to ...

The family originated in the inner main belt not very far from the source regions of near-Earth asteroids (101955) Bennu and (162173) Ryugu, recently visited respectively by NASA's OSIRIS-REx and ...