NASA has given newly revised figures about the threat posed by the asteroid 101955 Bennu. In a study released on Wednesday, NASA researchers said the chance of Bennu hitting Earth through the year ...

SCIENTISTS have warned that an asteroid taller than the Empire State Building could crash into Earth possibly having an apocalyptic impact on the planet. Known as 101955 Bennu – or simply Bennu ...

The past 4.5 billion years have been an incredibly lonely period for the asteroid 101955 Bennu. A gigantic impact in the early days of the solar system smashed an ancient cosmic rock to pieces ...

NASA's spacecraft OSIRIS-REx has finally reached the asteroid 101955 Bennu—which may be on collision course with the Earth—after traveling for just over two years since its launch in September ...

SCIENTISTS have warned that an asteroid taller than the Empire State Building could crash into Earth possibly having an apocalyptic impact on the planet. Known as 101955 Bennu – or simply Bennu ...

Researchers are analyzing materials returned from asteroid 101955 Bennu, and they don't look exactly like chondrules seen in meteorites.

NASA released the closest shot of the near-Earth asteroid 101955, Bennu, earlier this week. The picture, taken by the space agency's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, was shot from a distance of 0.4 miles ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...