This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the ...

Scientists have discovered numerous organic compounds in samples from the asteroid Bennu, including key amino acids and the ...

Researchers say there’s a 1.3 percent chance that the space rock 2024 YR4 could strike our planet — but not until December ...

Earlier this month, NASA revealed the final four would-be landing spots for its OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe ... roughly a full year for NASA to examine Bennu’s surface in enough detail to find ...

In 2016, NASA embarked on a new and unique mission: sending the Osiris-REx spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid Bennu to study the rocky space object and collect samples to return to ...

A space capsule from NASA’s Osiris-REx mission to the asteroid Bennu landed in Utah on Sunday. The sample of rocks and dust—the largest ever collected from an asteroid—could help scientists ...

Not just tracking, NASA’s recent OSIRIS-REx mission brought back samples from the asteroid Bennu to study them and analyze what asteroids are composed of and how they might impact Earth if they ...

Bennu's dust is rich in carbon ... distinguishing it from similar findings in other asteroid samples. Dante Lauretta, principal investigator for OSIRIS-REx, noted that the presence and state ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA will brief media at 11 a.m. EST Wednesday, Jan. 29, to provide an update on science results from NASA's OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation ...

Here are five asteroids that pose the greatest risk to Earth. Discovered in 1999, asteroid Bennu currently poses the greatest risk to Earth. Though the chance of impact is only 0.037% (1 in 2,700 ...

Scientists discovered numerous organic compounds in samples from the asteroid Bennu, including key amino acids, DNA, and RNA. This finding suggests that the chemical components essential for life ...