NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...

Watch: NASA's OSIRIS-REx returns to Earth from the asteroid Bennu What is Bennu? First discovered in 1999, Bennu is believed to be part of a larger asteroid that collided with another space rock ...

NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces) of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert in 2023 before swooping off ...

The mission, which launched on Sept. 8, 2016, targeting the primordial asteroid Bennu, believed to have remained largely unchanged since the solar system's formation 4.6 billion years ago.

A space rock the color of coal and no larger than a pebble you’d shake from a shoe just arrived at the Field Museum, where ...

Though the risk remains low, NASA scientists have found that the asteroid Bennu, shown here, has a higher chance of hitting Earth in the next 300 years than thought.

NASA’s first asteroid sample is the most pristine sample of its kind. Now, back on Earth, the sample from asteroid Bennu has already delivered surprising findings about the early solar system ...

SEE THE ASTEROID SAMPLE A NASA SPACECRAFT TOOK 7 YEARS TO BRING BACK TO EARTH. Scientists with NASA's OSIRIS-REx Sample Analysis Team published their early findings on the Bennu sample.

Researchers believe this 4.6-billion-year-old piece of rock could reveal compounds present at the beginning of the solar ...