NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

The spacecraft grabbed so much of the asteroid Bennu, its sample-collection device got jammed. Now the material is safe and sound. A series of images from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the ...

NASA predicts a large asteroid could impact Earth in the future, potentially affecting an area the size of Texas. Asteroid Bennu, passes by Earth roughly every six years, experts have been closely ...

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Asteroids are usually grouped into three main types based on what they are made of: C-type, S-type and M-type.

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how deep it went. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

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What was the most surprising or unexpected thing that happened as the mission unfolded? There are so many. I call Bennu the “trickster asteroid” because it constantly surprised us and challenged us.

One of the most startling findings is the presence of a phosphate crust never before observed in terrestrial meteorites. This characteristic suggests that Bennu could be a fragment of an ancient ...

The asteroid Bennu as it is photographed by OSIRIS-REx from more than one million miles away. The UA-lead mission to Bennu will attempt to retrieve a sample from the asteroid and return it to ...

Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

An asteroid NASA's been tracking for nearly 25 years could impact Earth in the future, a new report reveals. First discovered in 1999, Bennu, the near-Earth asteroid, could possibly drift into the ...