The asteroid Bennu just keeps getting more ... But then came the next surprise: Bennu's rock turned out to be incredibly soft, crumbling under the spacecraft as it touched the surface.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe is now in a holding pattern after a lengthy mission that visited the space rock known as Bennu ... The spacecraft will hang out around the asteroid until ...

Asteroid Bennu has had its close-up ... Why go through all this trouble to sample a space rock that's more than 200 million miles away from Earth? It turns out that despite their humble ...

Recent papers published in Nature and Nature Astronomy found life’s building blocks on a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu.

NASA spacecraft touched down on the rugged surface of the Bennu asteroid on Tuesday, grabbing a sample of rocks dating back to the birth of our solar system to bring home. The minivan-sized OSIRIS ...

The probe gathered dust, soil, and rocks from the asteroid and returned them ... Jason Dworkin of NASA pointed out that the question of what Bennu lacked compared to Earth remains, and this ...

In May 2021, OSIRIS-REx began its journey back to Earth carrying dust from Bennu - a rubble-pile asteroid older than ... hidden in Bennu’s ancient rocks. Wisconsin governor can lock in 400 ...

How space rocks help create - and destroy - environments suitable for life. Everyone knows that a big rock wiped out the dinosaurs ... and about a visit to another asteroid. In the dusty material NASA ...