At a news conference on Wednesday, NASA scientists said there was a 1-in-1,750 chance that an asteroid named Bennu, which is a bit wider than the Empire State Building is tall, could collide with ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx is ready for touchdown on asteroid Bennu. On Aug. 11, the mission will perform its "Matchpoint" rehearsal -- the second practice run of the Touch-and-Go (TAG) sample collection ...

On October 20, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will briefly touchdown on the near-Earth asteroid Bennu and attempt the agency’s first sample collection from an asteroid that will be returned to ...

NASA had a big reveal party on Wednesday. The nation's first-ever asteroid samples, which were delivered last month to a desert in Utah, were shown off at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston ...

The rocks and dust collected from asteroid Bennu hold amino acids, ammonia and other molecules essential to life on Earth, NASA reported Wednesday. The findings suggest the conditions necessary ...

Following Tuesday's historic touchdown on the asteroid Bennu, NASA has released never-before-seen images of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft kicking up rocks and debris on the space rock's surface.

The homogeneity found among both is especially confounding to scientists because the left and right-handed versions of all ...

The Bennu samples were retrieved by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2020. The robotic probe scraped 4.2 ounces of material from the asteroid and dropped them into Utah by parachute in a sealed ...

Why NASA Picked Space Rock Bennu for Its Asteroid-Sampling Mission. News. By Mike Wall published 7 September 2016 When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe sidled up to the diamond-shaped asteroid Bennu today (Dec. 3), bringing an end to a circuitous deep-space chase that lasted 27 months.

On NASA's list of impact risks, Bennu is ranked No. 2. Current data shows dozens of potential impacts in the final quarter of the 22nd century, ...

NASA's first asteroid sample is the most pristine sample of its kind. Now, back on Earth, the sample from asteroid Bennu has already delivered surprising findings about the early solar system and ...