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A few ounces of rock and dust retrieved from the distant asteroid Bennu show evidence of the building blocks of life.
Bennu’s parent asteroid likely broke apart 1 to 2 billion years ago, and some of the fragments came together to form the rubble pile we know as Bennu.
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which successfully returned a sample from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu in 2023, has provided significant new insights into both the asteroid’s composition and the ...
Scientists are working hard to analyze samples of the potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu, with early results suggesting it may even be a chunk of an ancient water world.
Water-bearing clays found in rocks from the asteroid Bennu support theories about how water may have made it to Earth in the distant past.
The capsule containing pieces from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, separated from OSIRIS-REx, parachuted into Utah's West Desert on Sunday morning.
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 ...
On Wednesday, OSIRIS-REx had one last close encounter with Bennu. The craft's observations could reveal the origins of life — and protect life's future.
But why was asteroid Bennu chosen for such an important mission? Here is everything we know about the asteroid that could hold clues into the origin of our solar system.
Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission from a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu.
Bennu is unlikely to strike Earth — at least in the near future — but its rubble pile nature would make other future space endeavors like asteroid mining difficult.
A new study reveals that there is a 1 in 2700 chance that the asteroid Bennu will collide with Earth 300 years from now.