NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

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Bennu, one of the most dangerous near-Earth objects ... However, such a technique isn’t foolproof, as some scientists also believed that a planet named Vulcan existed between the Sun and Mercury. This ...

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The University of Arizona's Kuiper Laboratory is the stage for these discoveries, where researchers utilize cutting-edge instruments to analyze these particles down to the atomic scale. One of the ...

Bennu has practically no chance of hitting Earth then, but depending on precisely when and where Bennu makes its close approach, our planet’s gravity could tweak the asteroid’s orbit enough to ...

A series of images from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the spacecraft approach and touch down on asteroid Bennu’s surface, over 200 million miles away from Earth, to collect a sample on ...

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