Asteroid Bennu wasn’t what NASA expected. Instead of a smooth surface for sample collection, OSIRIS-REx encountered a chaotic, rocky terrain that made its mission incredibly difficult. This ...

Bennu is also expected to pass closer to Earth than the moon in 2135 and if it does, our planet's gravitational pull could put it on the path to striking Earth on September 24, 2182.

A near-Earth asteroid named Bennu has a loosely packed surface similar to a pit of plastic balls, according to NASA scientists. A spacecraft collected a sample from the asteroid in October 2020 ...

The historic attempt to sample the asteroid Bennu could provide clues to the origins of our solar system—and of life itself. Working like a reverse vacuum cleaner, the sampler head of the OSIRIS ...

The samples found on Bennu are significant because they indicate that they formed in liquid water, NASA said, but the asteroid’s parent body likely didn’t have surface lakes or rivers like ...

Big Number. $1.16 billion.That’s how much the Planetary Society estimated the OSIRIS-REx mission cost. Key Background. Launched in 2016, the spacecraft arrived near Bennu in 2018 and spent two ...

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with the Earth in September 2182, new research has discovered.

Just over two decades ago, the asteroid Bennu was nothing but a distant light in the night sky, shining from 200 million miles away. In 1999, the ancient space boulder crept close enough to Earth ...

Scientists believe Bennu is an ancient ... [NASA HOST]: And it is off the desert terrain, in the air with the SRC in tow. [HELICOPTER WHIRRING] [DANTE]: O-REx on three. One, two, three.

Bennu was discovered on September 11, 1999, ... involved intricate planning and execution to ensure the spacecraft's successful touchdown on Bennu's rugged terrain.

Bennu’s parent asteroid, which formed around 4.5 billion years ago, seems to have been home to pockets of liquid water. The new findings indicate that water evaporated and left behind brines ...