Bennu was the target for NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sampling mission, which touched down briefly on the space rock in October 2020 to gather over 4 ounces of material, and then brought that sample ...

While the odds of Bennu impacting Earth may sound alarming, they're not entirely unexpected. "On average, medium-sized asteroids collide with Earth about every 100–200 thousand years.

Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

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

In 2018, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission reached asteroid 101955 Bennu. Two years later, the spacecraft snagged a sample of its surface, which has since been returned to Earth. Now, astronomers are ...

This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 images taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from ... [+] a range of 15 miles. As wide as The Eiffel Tower is tall, the asteroid Bennu is a ...

Bennu is about 500 metres wide—taller than the Empire State Building and as wide as five football fields. OSIRIS-REx returned Bennu samples to Earth in 2023, helping scientists uncover secrets ...

Our knowledge of life itself may be altered by a discovery made by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx project. The existence of organic molecules on the near-Earth object asteroid Bennu, which could be the key to the ...

New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking ...