Officially designated 101955 Bennu, the space rock was selected as a destination of NASA's first ever asteroid sample collection mission, the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, ...

Bennu was discovered in 1999 and is believed to be part of a larger asteroid that collided with another space rock. It’s about one-third of a mile wide and is roughly the height of the Empire ...

Scientists analyzing samples NASA brought back from an asteroid got a surprise detection that may mean the space rock was once part of a long-gone ocean world. What the team found was water ...

Among them, the near-Earth asteroid, known as Bennu, contains a surprising reservoir of a mineral called magnesium phosphate. These bright-white particles sprinkled in a sea of Bennu's dark rocks ...

NASA’s asteroid Bennu samples have rocks unlike any meteorite ever found Early results from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to Bennu have uncovered exotic versions of chondrules — rocks commonly ...

The rocks collected from Bennu represent a time capsule from the early days of the solar system dating back more than 4.5 billion years. Rocks and dust were collected from asteroid Bennu and ...

While the average rock has a density of about 3,000 kilograms per cubic meter, Lauretta says, the surface material on Bennu has a bulk density of about 500 to 700 kilograms per cubic meter.

Researchers consider Bennu to be a potentially dangerous asteroid, as it appears to have about a 1 in 1,750 chance of impacting the Earth between now and the year 2300.

A near-Earth asteroid named Bennu has a loosely packed surface similar to a pit of plastic balls, according to NASA scientists. A spacecraft collected a sample from the asteroid in October 2020 ...

Bennu’s rocks formed 4.5 billion years ago on a larger parent asteroid. That asteroid was wet and muddy. Under the surface, pockets of water perhaps only a few feet across were evaporating, ...

On Sunday, a sample of the Bennu asteroid finally reached Earth, the culmination of a seven-year mission. Now, scientists will analyse the rock to reveal secrets about the origin of life.