Bennu, it seems, was born of a salty planetoid rife with the ingredients for life. Bennu as it exists today is essentially a ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission reached asteroid 101955 Bennu. Two years later, the spacecraft snagged a sample of its surface, ...

Scientists simulated what would happen if a medium-size asteroid were to strike Earth. One of those space rocks, asteroid ...

Nearly 60 years later, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu, similar to the one that rained rocks over Revelstoke. Our research team has ...

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.

A portion of the asteroid Bennu sample delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, set into a microscope slide at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Credit: Molly ...

Why Trust Us? Two exciting new studies detail the life-supporting contents of a 4.3-ounce sample of the asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023 ...

TL;DR: NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe delivered samples from asteroid Bennu in 2023. Researchers have since analyzed these samples to study their contents. When NASA announced it had collected ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Studies of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA's OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and ...

The samples were taken from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu by the NASA mission OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. attempt to retrieve and analyze samples from an asteroid. The findings do not show evidence ...

In September 2023, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft dropped off a special delivery that scientists had been anticipating for nearly 3 years. Secured inside that delivery was over 120 grams of material ...