It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it ...

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

The rocks and dust collected from asteroid Bennu hold amino acids, ammonia and other molecules essential to life on Earth, NASA reported Wednesday. The findings suggest the conditions necessary for ...

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Discover the fascinating findings from asteroid Bennu: pristine salt minerals reveal the presence of liquid water in the ...

Bennu is a carbonaceous asteroid, the most common type in the Solar System. It formed from the pieces of a water-rich parent ...

the dinosaur-killing asteroid was massive. Medium-sized asteroids like Bennu are more common in the solar system. A graphic showing the damage caused by asteroids of different sizes. Graphic ...

With the OSIRIS-REx space probe, the NASA space agency succeeded in collecting some material from the surface of asteroid ...

The findings from returned samples of asteroid Bennu may provide researchers insight into what happens on distant icy bodies in our solar system, such as Saturn's moon Enceladus and the dwarf ...

New research backs up the old hypothesis that the key ingredients for life may have come to Earth on an asteroid ... Solar System was really turbulent, and there were millions of asteroids like ...

“These are run-of-the-mill, small bodies in the outer part of the solar system.” The Bennu team is continuing to look at unstudied material from the asteroid sample to see if even more complex ...

this mega-asteroid broke apart in the Asteroid Belt, producing a chunk of rock that us ape-like inhabitants on the Solar System’s third planet would one day call “Bennu.” Eventually, those intelligent ...