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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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.