OSIRIS-REx flew hundreds of millions of miles to do something NASA had never done: bring a piece of an asteroid home. The ...

Scientists have identified the Bennu asteroid threat as the highest single-date impact probability for any known asteroid.

In the year 2080, an asteroid called 101955 Bennu, (formerly called 1999 RQ36), will make a series of close orbital approaches to Earth, and there is a one in 1,800 chance of it colliding with the ...

On September 24, 2182, a relatively large space rock has a 0.037% chance of crashing onto the surface of Earth. Although the chances of impact are slim, Bennu is still one of the most potentially ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in ...

Smithsonian researchers analyzed fragments of the near-Earth asteroid and discovered water-rich clays that hint at a distant origin Jack Tamisiea A view of the outside of the OSIRIS-REx sample ...

Asteroid Bennu—the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample return mission, led by the University of Arizona—is a mixture of materials from throughout, and even beyond, our solar system. Over the past few ...

Scientists studying samples from the asteroid Bennu have found that it contains a remarkable mix of materials — some of which formed long before the sun even existed. "It's very fascinating to see ...

The ambitious mission to retrieve samples from asteroid Bennu and return them to Earth is paying off. Just as scientists had hoped, the asteroid is revealing details about the early days of our solar ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pristine samples from asteroid Bennu reveal amino acids and DNA building blocks, pointing to ...

This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 images taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a range of 15 miles. As wide as The Eiffel Tower is tall, the asteroid Bennu is a potentially ...

Jessica Barnes examines a vial containing sample particles at the Kuiper-Arizona Laboratory for Astromaterials Analysis, located at the University of Arizona. Asteroid Bennu — the target of NASA's ...