Your browser does not support the video element. The asteroid Bennu just keeps getting more bizarre. When NASA decided to send a probe to land on a space rock and ...

These ridges are where material from the mantle, the layer beneath Earth’s surface crust ... further investigation.” The rocks collected from Bennu represent a time capsule from the early ...

Its contents: 122 grams of dust and rock from asteroid Bennu. The probe had collected this sample from the surface of the 500-meter agglomerate of unconsolidated material in a touch-and-go ...

OSIRIS-REx found that Bennu’s surface was far rougher than thought, and mission controllers spent years finding a spot on Bennu’s where the spacecraft could quickly touchdown and gather samples.

Much of what scientists know about the early Solar System comes from meteorites – ancient rocks that travel through space and ...

Every six years, an asteroid by the name of Bennu passes by Earth. Bennu is a small, loosely compacted ball of black rocks that formed nearly 4.6 billion years ago. Recently, scientists ...

The rock ended up being far more, well, dirty than NASA originally expected. Bennu’s surface is absolutely packed with debris, posing a challenge for NASA’s team that still has to decide where ...

A SwRI-led study found that the rocky fragments dominating the surface asteroid Bennu are weakly bound, exhibiting near-zero cohesion, probably due to size and low gravity of the small body.