This “super-resolution” view of the asteroid Bennu was created using eight images obtained by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on Oct. 29 from about 205 miles away. The spacecraft is to land on ...

A computer-generated image of the OSIRIS-REx probe collecting a sample from the surface of the asteroid Bennu. The spacecraft is due to return to Earth with the sample in 2023.

Scientists at NASA collected radar images as two asteroids made recent close passes of Earth, and the data revealed that one of the space rocks has a tiny moon.

Images taken by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft reveal heating from our star causes aligned cracks in the surface of the asteroid.

NASA scientists have predicted there is a chance that a massive asteroid they have been tracking could smash into Earth in the year 2182, potentially devastating an area the size of Texas.

When the OSIRIS-REx probe arrived at asteroid Bennu, it found a body that looked and behaved quite differently from what scientists had expected.

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with Earth, a study has found.

DANI DELLAGIUSTINA: When we got the first images of asteroid Bennu... (chuckling): I was a little concerned, a little worried, because the surface is very rough, very rugged.

An asteroid NASA's been tracking for nearly 25 years could impact Earth in the future, a new report reveals. First discovered in 1999, Bennu, the near-Earth asteroid, could possibly drift into the ...

The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists, with samples from the space rock showing weirder properties than they expected. These include extremely high nitrogen levels and improbably magnetic ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe has already had quite an eventful year. After initially arriving at the space rock known as Bennu in early December, the … ...