Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brian May and Dante Lauretta, the principal investigator of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission posing with a new book on asteroid Bennu.

The forthcoming book is the first-ever 3D atlas of an asteroid. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space news, the latest ...

Arizona’s top man on NASA’s asteroid sampling mission has teamed up with actual rock ’n’ roll royalty to write the book on Bennu. Set for release on Thursday, “Bennu 3-D: Anatomy of an Asteroid” uses ...

An Indiana University of Pennsylvania professor is part of a group of authors whose recent book explores the Bennu asteroid, which scientists believe is a sort of “time capsule” from the dawn of the ...

Planetary scientist Dante Lauretta spent the last two decades pitching, preparing, and pondering a mission unlike one he or NASA had ever tried: OSIRIS-REx, the space agency’s first attempt at ...

A bright fireball streaked across the sky above mountains, glaciers and spruce forest near the town of Revelstoke in British Columbia, Canada, on the evening of March 31, 1965. Fragments of this ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — New results from OSIRIS-REx, NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission, reveals why some gray asteroids reflect light at different wavelengths, like red or blue, more strongly ...

Samples of matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building blocks of life to Earth, scientists report in a pair of new studies published ...

The discovery is a capstone achievement for NASA, which went to great lengths to secure and deliver asteroid samples from asteroid Bennu in 2020. Reading time 3 minutes Asteroid Bennu not only held ...

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The prize? A signed copy of a new book about asteroid Bennu co-authored by May and NASA OSIRIS-REx chief scientist Dante Lauretta. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...