A NASA spacecraft that will return a sample of a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu to Earth in 2023 made the first-ever close-up observations of particle plumes erupting from an asteroid’s surface.

OSIRIS-Rex arrived at Asteroid Bennu expecting a smooth, forgiving surface ideal for sample collection. Instead, the spacecraft found a world made of loose, shifting debris that reacted unpredictably ...

Bennu is one of the most hazardous known asteroids in our solar system. Thanks to a visit by a NASA spacecraft, scientists have a much greater understanding of the near-Earth asteroid, its upcoming ...

NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission now knows much more about the material it’ll be collecting in just a few weeks. In a special collection of six papers published today in the journals ...

The ambitious mission to retrieve samples from asteroid Bennu and return them to Earth is paying off. Just as scientists had hoped, the asteroid is revealing details about the early days of our solar ...

Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried over thousands of years and life’s basic ingredients were widespread.

This discovery could rock our world. NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security – Regolith Explorer spacecraft, or OSIRIS-REx for short, retrieved parts of Bennu ...

NASA has given newly revised figures about the threat posed by the asteroid 101955 Bennu. In a study released on Wednesday, NASA researchers said the chance of Bennu hitting Earth through the year ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The good news is that scientists have a better handle on asteroid Bennu’s whereabouts for the next 200 years. The bad news is that the space rock has a slightly greater chance ...

(Gray News) - NASA says an asteroid called Bennu has a chance of impacting Earth late in the 22nd century. According to scientists, Bennu will make a close flyby of Earth in 2135 with a chance of ...

With the return of an Asteroid Bennu sample in 2023 as part of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, researchers from the University of Arizona have made significant discoveries toward understanding the origins ...