Bennu isn’t an asteroid that will bring about worldwide devastation. If the asteroid were to collide with Earth, it would damage the planet outward up to 600 miles away from its impact zone ...

Bennu was discovered in 1999 and is believed to be part of a larger asteroid that collided with another space rock. It’s about one-third of a mile wide and is roughly the height of the Empire ...

At the Natural History Museum in London, Professor Sara Russell has been comparing the isotopic "fingerprint" of Earth's water with water found in the asteroid Bennu, captured and brought back by the ...

Asteroid Bennu is a 4.5-billion-year-old remnant of our early solar system and scientists believe it can help shed light on how planets formed and evolved.

In 2023, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx brought back to Earth 121 grams of material from asteroid Bennu. This is the largest sample ever collected and brought back from a world beyond the Moon. Early ...

Since Bennu is around 4.5 billion years old, the sample is almost like a look back into the solar system during its early years. Nasa has referred to it as a “time capsule”.

Bennu is rich in carbon and is believed to be a leftover fragment from the birth of the solar system, 4.5 billion years ago, a time capsule of sorts that may help understand and trace the origin ...

We mention the exact figure because in a mission as complex and delicate as this one, every gram of extraterrestrial material matters. And the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, which arrived at Bennu in 2018 ...

Bennu orbits at an average speed of 63,000 miles per hour. Once close to Earth, it takes around 1.2 years to orbit the sun fully, and rotates once every 4.3 hours.

The source is Bennu, a carbonaceous asteroid which has a 1 in 1,750 chance of impacting earth between the years 2178 and 2290. So, no matter how good your health care is, you will not be around to ...

By traveling to Bennu, NASA researchers reasoned, a probe could gather pristine material. The OSIRIS-REx probe arrived at the 1,850-foot-wide asteroid in 2020, scooped up rock and dirt, and then ...

A conversation with Dante Lauretta on life after asteroid Bennu and OSIRIS-REx. Studying this material will clarify the role that asteroids might have played in bringing life’s ingredients to Earth.