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 ...

The people of the 22nd and 23rd centuries have a little less to worry about as of Wednesday, as NASA scientists have confirmed there is little likelihood that the half-kilometer-wide near-Earth ...

Humanity has collected samples from three asteroids: the stony type, Itokawa, and the carbonaceous Ryugu and Bennu. Carbonaceous asteroids are the largest class, so it wouldn’t be too surprising that ...

In September 2135, the 1,600-foot-wide asteroid Bennu will pass between the Earth and the moon — and while scientists said Wednesday there is no chance of a collision, Earth's gravity will alter the ...

Asteroid Bennu—the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample return mission, led by the University of Arizona—is a mixture of materials from throughout, and even beyond, our solar system. Over the past few ...

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 mosaic of Bennu was created using observations made by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft that was in close proximity to the asteroid for over two years. NASA ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. The first analysis of the Bennu asteroid samples that NASA brought to Earth earlier this ...