A few ounces of rock and dust retrieved from the distant asteroid Bennu show evidence of the building blocks of life.

A new study reveals that there is a 1 in 2700 chance that the asteroid Bennu will collide with Earth 300 years from now.

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 ...

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 ...

Pieces of Asteroid Bennu about to come to Earth as part of Nasa’s Osiris-Rex mission Pieces of 4.5-billion-year old space rock will tell us where we came from, scientists hope ...

Analyses of rock and dust samples from the asteroid Bennu collected and brought to Earth by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft show the presence of abundant mineral salts and amino acids revealing unknown ...

Pieces of distant, ancient asteroid arrive on Earth from Nasa spacecraft, after travelling billions of miles Sample of asteroid Bennu will help tell us where we came from, scientists hope ...

The capsule containing pieces from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, separated from OSIRIS-REx, parachuted into Utah's West Desert on Sunday morning.

A half-pound hunk of asteroid is screaming toward impact with earth Sunday morning in the Utah desert and everyone near its bullseye is just fine with that.

Life after asteroid Bennu Studying this material will clarify the role that asteroids might have played in bringing life’s ingredients to Earth.

Scientists at US space agency Nasa have been holding a news conference where they have unveiled first pictures of the space rock extracted from the Bennu asteroid The material, scooped up by a ...

Bennu is a 1,600-foot-wide near-Earth asteroid that was discovered in 1999 by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) Project. It passes by Earth approximately every 6 years.