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 ...

Once an asteroid has been ejected from its usual path and is potentially heading our ... collected dust and rocks from asteroid Bennu and returned them to Earth in 2023. Earlier this year, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx set out to collect a pristine sample from asteroid Bennu, a cosmic time capsule that may hold clues to the origins of life in our solar system. But the journey was anything but easy.

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 ...

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