The spacecraft is part of an ambitious plan to return pieces of Bennu to Earth, the first time a NASA mission has attempted such a feat. Since arriving at the asteroid, Osiris-rex has been busy ...

Potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid Bennu, the subject of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission that's set to return to to Earth Sunday morning, could strike our planet a little more than 150 years from ...

A NASA spacecraft returned to Earth on Sunday after a years-long mission to a nearby asteroid. A capsule containing pieces from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu separated from the spacecraft known as ...

The mission marked NASA's first attempt to land on an asteroid and return a sample of one of these curious bodies back to Earth. Bennu orbits the Sun every 436.6 days. It is a rare, B-type ...

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

NASA scientists are keeping a close eye on asteroid Bennu, a 1,610-foot-wide cosmic object that could smash into our planet. If Bennu were to hit the Earth, it would slam into the surface at about ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global winter that affects our planet for years.

NASA unveils sample scooped from surface of near-Earth asteroid Bennu. US space agency and scientists say sample taken from Bennu contains abundant water and carbon, as well as iron minerals.

Humans might need to look up as this asteroid is expected to make a close encounter with Earth in the future. ... 2020, to collect samples and information about Bennu, NASA said.

Bennu comes within a mere 0.002 Astronomical Units to Earth every six years, and there is a very small chance it will collide with our planet in about 150 years' time.

First discovered in 1999, Bennu is a near-Earth asteroid that passes near the planet every six years, deemed an important target of study during NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to collect information ...