Related: 8 ways to stop an asteroid: Nuclear weapons, paint and Bruce Willis Officially designated 101955 Bennu, the space rock was selected as a destination of NASA's first ever asteroid sample ...

Known as 101955 Bennu – or simply Bennu – the asteroid, discovered in September 1999 is the size of five football fields and weighs approximately 79billion kg – 1,664 times as heavy as the ...

The samples were taken from the near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu by the NASA mission OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. attempt to retrieve and analyze samples from an asteroid. OSIRIS-REx's van-sized ...

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 ...

The spacecraft departed for near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu aboard an United Launch Alliance Atlas V 411 evolved expendable launch vehicle at 7:05 p.m. EDT on September 8, 2016, on a seven-year ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission returned 121.6 grams of sample from asteroid (101955) Bennu in September 2023—the largest sample ever returned to Earth. Now, an international team of OSIRIS-REx sample ...

The 500-meter Bennu is thought to be one of the most dangerous asteroids in the solar system. But rather than being solid rock, it turns out its surface is like a ball pit. This mosaic of the ...

NASA's spacecraft OSIRIS-REx has arrived at tiny distant asteroid 101955 Bennu safe and sound. The mission will collect samples from the distant asteroid and return them to Earth. But Bennu has a ...

If you plan to visit asteroid (101955) Bennu, you'll need a new map. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN) and NASA have decided that ...

O.S. Barnouin et al. A first look at 162173 Ryugu and 101955 Bennu: Hayabusa 2 and OSIRIS-REx arrive at their respective target asteroids I. American Geophysical Union meeting, Washington ...