Asteroid Bennu, the near-Earth object NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission sampled in 2020, has long been treated by scientists as a ...

On Dec. 3, after traveling billions of kilometers from Earth, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft reached its target, Bennu, and kicked off a nearly two-year, up-close investigation of the asteroid. It will ...

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

Among the thousands of asteroids that pass near Earth’s orbit, one modest-sized rock has drawn more sustained scientific ...

After 20 years of planning, building, launching, and waiting, NASA finally accessed the last of the Bennu asteroid sample from the OSIRIS-REx sample retrieval mission, which returned to Earth this ...

It’s 5 o’clock somewhere – and while here on Earth, “happy hour” is commonly associated with winding down and the optional cold beverage, that’s when things get going on Bennu, the destination ...

It’s official: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft snagged 121.6 grams of pristine space rocks when it bopped the asteroid Bennu four years ago, more than double the mission’s official science goal, the ...

Magnesium-sodium phosphate found in NASA's OSIRIS-Rex asteroid sample suggests Bennu, seen above, could have originated from an ancient, primitive ocean world. Credit: NASA What the team found was ...

The outside of the OSIRIS-REx sample collector after its return to Earth. The crumbly black material is from asteroid Bennu. Dark bits and pieces of a faraway space rock will go on display on November ...

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Bits of rock and dust brought back from the distant asteroid Bennu contain some of the chemical building blocks of life, NASA announced Wednesday, a discovery that strengthens the theory that ...