Every six years, an asteroid by the name of Bennu passes by Earth. Bennu is a small, loosely compacted ball of black rocks that formed nearly 4.6 billion years ago. Recently, scientists ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 Bennu after the ... with a possible impact path on a line stretching ...

The agency’s OSIRIS-REx mission—having successfully visited the asteroid Bennu in 2020 and returning ... altering the path of Dimorphos, which is a minor planet-moon of the asteroid Didymos.

despite them not being the most obvious candidates in terms of orbital mechanics. The asteroid is likely fully solid, and not a rubble pile like the large asteroids Bennu and Ryugu. It was ...

After four years in space, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx craft made a brief landing on the asteroid Bennu to collect samples of the ancient rock. Six months later, part of the spacecraft began its journey ...

In the dusty material NASA brought back from the asteroid Bennu, scientists found the chemical building blocks of life, including many of the amino acids that are found in our cells. Could an asteroid ...

NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces) of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert in 2023 before swooping off after ...

That’s what a small group of scientists at Los Alamos National Labs are trying to do with data recovered from a near-Earth asteroid ... was pulling on its orbital path. Then, on the night ...

If an incoming asteroid is ever on a collision course with our planet, the space agency has said that the DART method could ...

NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces) of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert in 2023 before swooping off ...