You can zoom in on photos posted to the NASA website to see more detail.. OSIRIS-REx's van-sized craft visited Bennu, scraped and collected material from the asteroid’s surface and sealed it ...

NASA said: "The images were taken on February 25 while the spacecraft was in orbit around Bennu, approximately 1.1 miles (1.8km) from the asteroid’s surface. READ MORE: Mars MYSTERY: NASA probes ...

NASA reveals first images of Bennu asteroid 02:06. ... Mars lander is more than halfway to its target, on course for touchdown Nov. 26 to explore the deep interior of the red planet.

A microscope image of a dark Bennu particle, about a millimeter long, with a crust of bright phosphate. To the right is a smaller fragment that broke off.

Images obtained by Osiris-rex can be processed to highlight Bennu's surface in red or blue, which researchers use to determine how much sunlight is being reflected.

A microscope image shows a dark particle from Bennu, about a millimeter long, with a crust of bright phosphate. Lauretta & Connolly et al. (2024)/Meteoritics & Planetary Science ...

In 2018, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission reached asteroid 101955 Bennu. Two years later, the spacecraft snagged a sample of its surface, which has since been returned to Earth. Now, astronomers are ...

Bennu is categorized as a near-Earth asteroid, and scientists say there is a 1-in-1,750 chance it could slam into Earth during a series of very close passes between 2175 and 2199. Bennu is not ...

“These two OpNav images of Bennu’s southern hemisphere, which each have an exposure time of about 1.4 milliseconds, were captured Jan. 17 from a distance of about one mile,” NASA writes.

Asteroid Bennu nearly swallowed the OSIRIS-REx probe when it touched down on the rock to collect a sample, revealing that the space rock's nature was much different than scientists had thought.

Asteroid Bennu nearly swallowed the OSIRIS-REx probe when it touched down on the rock to collect a sample, revealing that the space rock's nature was much different than scientists had thought.

NASA'S OSIRIS-REX spacecraft just revealed the clearest view yet of Asteroid Bennu, an enormous space rock on a potential collision path with Earth.