Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with Earth, a study has ...

On the world's first Asteroid Day, Nina Burleigh discovers that Nasa has already commissioned a team of 'planetary defenders' ...

At the time of publication, there is a 2.3 percent chance of an asteroid — called 2024 YR4 — hitting the planet in 2032, according to NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies. Less than a ...

NASA/James Tralie Asteroid Bennu not only held water at some ... whose rocky bits were valiantly collected by NASA in 2020, and hint at the ways life may have taken root from the chemical cocktail ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino ...

An international team of scientists has released some of their discoveries about the samples collected by the NASA spacecraft Osiris-REx from the near-Earth carbon-rich asteroid Bennu in 2020 and ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.

NASA's groundbreaking mission to an asteroid A mission called OSIRIS-REx landed on an asteroid named Bennu in 2020, jammed its arm into the rock's surface, and scooped up a heaping sample of grit ...

This undated image made available by NASA shows the asteroid Bennu from the OSIRIS ... successfully collected 120 grams of samples from Bennu in 2020 and delivered them to Earth in September ...

The analysis of the Bennu samples is the scientific payoff for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which in 2016 launched a probe to the asteroid on a multiyear journey. The spacecraft jabbed the asteroid in ...

A NASA spacecraft brought samples from the ... A second mission, dubbed Hayabusa2, delivered a small sample from an asteroid known as Ryugu in 2020. While the samples from Bennu have already ...