NASA would be attempting to land the spacecraft, OSIRIS-REx, to the carbonaceous rock, Asteroid 101955, also known as "Bennu," on Tuesday, October 20, around 3:12 in the afternoon, Pacific Time (PT).

NASA's spacecraft OSIRIS-REx has finally reached the asteroid 101955 Bennu—which may be on collision course with the Earth—after traveling for just over two years since its launch in September ...

Known as 101955 Bennu – or simply Bennu – the asteroid, discovered in September 1999 is the size of five football fields and weighs approximately 79billion kg – 1,664 times as heavy as the ...

Observations of asteroid (101955) Bennu with NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft reveal an unexpected surficial diversity that poses a challenge to the success of the sample-return mission.

Astronomers have discovered evidence of abundant water-bearing minerals on the surface of the near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu. Using early spectral data from NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft ...

The past 4.5 billion years have been an incredibly lonely period for the asteroid 101955 Bennu. A gigantic impact in the early days of the solar system smashed an ancient cosmic rock to pieces, ...

Data from the asteroid ‘101955 Bennu’ --- the prime science target for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission --- reveal ubiquitous amounts of water locked inside clays, the mission’s science team ...

NASA released the closest shot of the near-Earth asteroid 101955, Bennu, earlier this week. The picture, taken by the space agency's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, was shot from a distance of 0.4 miles ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned 121.6 grams of sample from asteroid (101955) Bennu in September 2023—the largest sample ever returned to Earth.

Yu Jiang, Jürgen Schmidt From Jan. 6, 2019 to Feb. 18, 2019, OSIRIS-REx observed asteroid (101955) Bennu ejecting 11 plumes of dust, of which part is escaping and another part […] ...