The spacecraft reached Bennu in 2018 after traveling 320 million kilometers from Earth. It spent two years mapping its ...

That is to say, even if it’s not Bennu headed our way, we might want to know what we are in for. Related: These 5 impact craters highlight Earth’s wild history What’s the damage ...

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.

Asteroid Bennu is a potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid that was studied by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission from 2018 to 2021.

NASA has completed its first asteroid Bennu analysis using the samples returned by OSIRIS-REx, revealing some intriguing results.

The seven-year Osiris-Rex mission ended on Sunday with the return of regolith from the asteroid Bennu, which might hold clues about the origins of our solar system and life.

Bennu’s parent body formed 4.5 billion years ago and once contained pockets of liquid water. As the water evaporated, brines ...

Bennu is classified as a “potentially hazardous asteroid,” meaning the object is more than 460 feet (140 meters) wide and could theoretically come within 4.65 million miles of Earth.

The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists, with samples from the space rock showing weirder properties than they expected. These include extremely high nitrogen levels and improbably magnetic ...

In 2018, the OSIRIS-REx mission arrived at the near-Earth asteroid Bennu to collect pristine samples, untouched by alterations induced by Earth's atmosphere, to be analyzed on Earth.

When scientists first observed the asteroid Bennu up close in 2018, they were shocked to find that its surface was covered with sizeable boulders. From Earth, Bennu appeared smooth.