Bennu is tracked so carefully not because a collision is likely, but because precise spacecraft measurements make even a tiny long-term possibility worth quantifying. NASA’s best-known single-date ...

After a spacecraft spent years studying a near-Earth asteroid and brought a piece of it home, scientists were able to refine one of the more attention-grabbing numbers in planetary defense: the chance ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Surprisingly salty asteroid Bennu contains the building blocks of life Pristine samples of asteroid Bennu have revealed something ...

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft returned triumphantly to Earth in 2023 after collecting 4.3 ounces (121.6 grams) of precious grains of dust and rock from the asteroid Bennu in 2020. While that sample return ...

The "JWST spectroscopy of (142) Polana: Connection to NEAs (101955) Bennu and (162173) Ryugu" paper is published in the Planetary Science Journal. "Very early in the formation of the solar system, we ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A mosaic of Bennu created from observations made by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, which was in ...

Jawin, Erica R., Ballouz, Ronald, Ryan, Andrew, Kaplan, Hannah, Al Asad, Manar M., Molaro, Jamie, Rozitis, Benjamin, Keller, Lindsay, and McCoy, Timothy J. 2023 ...

SwRI scientists reviewed spectral data of sample material taken from near-Earth asteroids Ryugu and Bennu (pictured above) and compared them with spectral data of main belt asteroid Polana from the ...

Drouet D'Aubigny, C. Y. Edmundson, K. L. Fornasier, S. Hamilton, V. E. Hasselmann, P. H. Hergenrother, C. W. Howell, E. S. Jawin, Erica R. Kaplan, H. H. Le Corre, L ...