A new investigation into the isotopic composition of asteroid Bennu, of which NASA returned samples to Earth, has found it ...

Among the millions of rocks tumbling through the inner solar system, one small carbon-rich asteroid gets more attention from planetary defense scientists than almost any other. Bennu, a roughly ...

The asteroid Bennu orbits the sun once every 1.2 years and approaches Earth every six years, passing within around 300,000 ...

On September 23, the sample container landed in the Utah desert, carrying around 120 grams of material from Bennu. From there ...

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Bennu is a small, near-Earth asteroid that makes a close pass to Earth every six years or so. Scientists believe Bennu might have broken off from a much larger carbon-rich asteroid about 700 million ...

Asteroid Bennu's chemical fingerprint is revealing new clues about where it formed and the surprising role Jupiter played in ...

Our solar system is filled with rocky debris tumbling around the sun, most of which is the same age, but sometimes you find something much older.

Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission have revealed new clues about the asteroid’s origins ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...