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

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 ...

NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission now knows much more about the material it’ll be collecting in just a few weeks. In a special collection of six papers published today in the journals ...

Samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission reveal asteroid Bennu formed closer to the sun’s water-ice line than expected. ETH ...

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 ...

In a new study, researchers measured subtle variations in iron, titanium, and chromium isotopes in Bennu grains. Their ...

Documenting NASA's incredible twenty-year mission to land a spacecraft on an asteroid. An all-new, one-hour documentary revealing the incredible challenges, surprises and human triumphs of OSIRIS-REx, ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 Bennu after the mission returned its samples to Earth in 2023. While ...

Announced on Friday, the images are the latest milestone in an ambitious attempt to study the asteroid in detail and, hopefully, to bring back samples from its surface. The five images were captured ...

Asteroid Bennu—the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample return mission, led by the University of Arizona—is a mixture of materials from throughout, and even beyond, our solar system. Over the past few ...

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 ...