YR4 is back in the spotlight. Brand new research has produced a better estimate of its size and orbit, which give it a 3.8 percent chance of hitting the Moon. Now a different group has looked at its ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 Bennu after the mission returned its samples to Earth in 2023.

Though the mini-moon will only be in Earth’s orbit for ... REx spacecraft on a mission to an asteroid near Earth called Bennu ...

It's up in the air how much longer the beloved telescope will be with us.

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 ...

Scientists have found special chemical compounds necessary for the existence of life in samples collected from asteroid Bennu ...

It remains the biggest cosmic haul from beyond the moon. The two previous asteroid sample missions, by Japan, yielded considerably less material. Small amounts of Bennu’s precious black grains — ...

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 ...

One of the alien species depicted in Rebel Moon is a winged creature very similar to the griffins of European mythology. This creature is called a bennu and in this extended exclusive clip from ...

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 ...

In 2016, NASA embarked on a new and unique mission: sending the Osiris-REx spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid Bennu to study the rocky space object and collect samples to return to ...