The findings “bolster the hypothesis that asteroids like Bennu could have delivered the raw ingredients to Earth prior to the emergence of life,” Dan Glavin of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center tells ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 Bennu after the ... with a possible impact path on a line stretching ...

OSIRIS-REx launched in September 2016 and traveled 200 million miles (320 million kilometers) to reach Bennu. Once there, the spacecraft orbited the asteroid for nearly two years as flight ...

Scientists analysing samples from asteroid Bennu, delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx ... study it with instruments that do not exist today. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, ...

One of them, Bennu, has a 1-in-2,700 chance of colliding with Earth in September 2182, the researchers note. If that happens, the researchers suggest, major long-term changes would occur on Earth ...

A capsule carrying precious samples from asteroid Bennu landed on Earth on Sunday ... spacecraft but catches booster on seventh test flight The mission was partially successful after the booster ...

“I think it shows that the early steps toward the path ... the Bennu samples special is they’re so pristine,” said Daniel Glavin, an astrobiologist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...