Asteroid Bennu’s boulders are laced with hidden cracks, and those cracks explain why the asteroid sheds heat so quickly, ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid-sampling mission formally ended on Sept. 30, 2026, though scientists will continue to study the pieces of space rock it returned for decades.

Tiny samples from asteroid Bennu are rewriting scientists' understanding of how our Solar System formed. New evidence suggests that Bennu was born where material from the inner and outer Solar System ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pristine samples from asteroid Bennu reveal amino acids and DNA building blocks, pointing to ...

Celebrations erupted in the NASA control room as the capsule containing samples from the asteroid Bennu touched down in the Utah desert Sunday after a 4 billion mile journey that lasted seven years.

NASA scientists have finally uncovered why asteroid Bennu loses heat so quickly despite being covered in massive boulders. Samples returned to Earth reveal that its rocks are filled with hidden cracks ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Collage of OSIRIS-REx spacecraft over asteroid Bennu, an image of Bennu, and engineers preparing the sample return capsule. Talk ...

Asteroid Bennu origin discovery: ETH Zurich's Science Advances study reveals Jupiter filtered early solar dust into a water-ice-line transition zone near the asteroid belt 4.5 billion years ago, ...

In one of the biggest surprises of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, its target asteroid, Bennu, turned out to be a jagged, rugged world covered in large boulders, with few of the smooth patches that earlier ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The good news is that scientists have a better handle on asteroid Bennu’s whereabouts for the next 200 years. The bad news is that the space rock has a slightly greater ...

Researchers discovered sugars essential for biology, including glucose, in the asteroid material for the first time. A strange, pliable substance nicknamed "space gum" was also found, which could have ...

The asteroid Bennu orbits the Sun once every 1.2 years and approaches Earth every six years, passing within around 300,000 kilometres. NASA took advantage of ...