In 2016, NASA embarked on a new and unique mission: sending the Osiris-REx spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid Bennu to study the rocky space object and collect samples to return to ...

The Nature paper found evidence of evaporated brine minerals, suggesting that Bennu's parent body - a larger proto-planet or ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has been steadily progressing since the spacecraft arrived ...

Scientists have found special chemical compounds necessary for the existence of life in samples collected from asteroid Bennu ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe is now in a holding pattern after a lengthy mission that visited the space rock known as Bennu ... and Earth as a habitable planet. NASA will set 75% of the ...

Astronomers predict that the 500-metre-wide asteroid Bennu has a one in 2,700 chance of hitting the planet in 2182 - similar odds to flipping a coin 11 times and getting the same outcome each time.

If Bennu were to collide with the planet, the energy released would be equivalent to 1.4 billion tons of TNT, causing significant regional damage. First observed in 1950 and rediscovered after 50 ...

Scientists found traces of briny water and salty minerals, similar to those on Europa and Enceladus, suggesting liquid water once flowed on Bennu. A new study suggests Bennu may have formed beyond ...