If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has been steadily progressing since the spacecraft arrived ...

Scientists found traces of briny water and salty minerals, similar to those on Europa and Enceladus, suggesting liquid water once flowed on Bennu. A new study suggests Bennu may have formed beyond ...

Your browser does not support the video element. The asteroid Bennu just keeps getting more bizarre. When NASA decided to send a probe to land on a space rock and ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe is now in a holding pattern after a lengthy mission ...

UPDATE: Oct. 20, 2020, 6:41 p.m. EDT: The story below has been updated to reflect that NASA successfully touched the surface of Bennu to collect samples. Asteroid Bennu has had its close-up.

It is now accepted that under the influence of solar radiation pressure, the absorption, reflexion and re-emission of radiation can cause asteroids to change the rotational motion around their own ...

Bennu, an asteroid the size of the Empire State Building, has a 1-in-2700 chance of hitting Earth in 2182. 'Moon Dust to megawatts': Wild new tech may power cities beyond Earth 'China is worried ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft had a mission in 2020: fly to Bennu, an asteroid about 200 million miles from earth, land briefly, collect a small sample, and return home. But its mission was ...