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.

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.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission released its first photographs taken from just a mile above the surface of the asteroid Bennu.

Images taken by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft are helping scientists to understand why small particles are occasionally flying off the surface of Bennu, a nearly spherical asteroid that resembles ...

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 ...

A NASA probe speeding through the solar system has captured its first image of the asteroid Bennu, which the space agency will try to land on in 2020. Once that happens, the spacecraft OSIRIS-REx ...

A later maneuver during the Baseball Diamond phase resulted in wider-angle images of the asteroid, like one showing off Bennu's south pole. This image shows much more of the asteroid itself ...

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 ...

The picture, taken by the space agency's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, was shot from a distance of 0.4 miles, or 690 meters, above Bennu on Jan. 17, 2019. In the image, half of Bennu is sunlit and half ...

On Aug. 17, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft obtained the first images of its target asteroid Bennu from a distance of 1.4 million miles, or almost six times the distance between the Earth and Moon.

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.