rocks and pebbles held together only by the body's weak gravitational forces. When OSIRIS-REx first arrived at Bennu, it quickly revealed that the asteroid's surface looked quite different from ...

“If Bennu was completely packed, that would imply nearly solid rock, but we found a lot of void space in the surface,” said study coauthor Kevin Walsh, a member of the OSIRIS-REx science team ...

While the average rock has a density of about 3,000 kilograms per cubic meter, Lauretta says, the surface material on Bennu has a bulk density of about 500 to 700 kilograms per cubic meter.

The 500-meter Bennu is thought to be one of the most dangerous asteroids in the solar system. But rather than being solid rock, it turns out its surface is like a ball pit. This mosaic of the ...

Bits of rock and dust brought back from the distant ... Scientists discovered the surface of Bennu is not solid but loosely packed. Instead of bouncing off the surface, the sampling head sank ...

Rocks are scattered across its heavily ... mission is to collect and return at least 60 grams of surface material from Bennu and deliver it to Earth in 2023. Sample collection activities provided ...

When OSIRIS-Rex touched down to grab a sample of the asteroid in October 2020 it encountered a surface resembling a children's 'ball pit.' On October 20, 2020, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft ...

After initially arriving at the space rock known as Bennu in early December ... the photos give us an even better look at the debris-littered surface of Bennu. Don't Miss: Today’s deals ...

A space rock is making big news this ... according to NASA. Its black surface is packed with boulders, and it orbits the sun every 14 months. Bennu is rich in carbon and is believed to be a ...

A near-Earth asteroid named Bennu has a loosely packed surface similar to a pit of plastic balls, according to NASA scientists. A spacecraft collected a sample from the asteroid in October 2020 ...