Analysis of samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu reveal that it has a bizarre chemical make-up and is ...

This set of stereoscopic images provides a 3D view of the large, 170-foot (52-meter) boulder that juts from asteroid Bennu's southern hemisphere and the rocky slopes that surround it. The stereo ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission returned 121.6 grams of sample from asteroid (101955) Bennu in September 2023 ... carbon and nitrogen—using high-resolution mass spectrometry at Kyushu University.

In 2016, NASA embarked on a new and unique mission: sending the Osiris-REx spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid Bennu to study ... and rewards of this high-stakes undertaking.

(CNN) — If the near-Earth asteroid Bennu were to collide with ... But if the iron content in Bennu is high and distributed across the ocean, it could trigger unprecedented blooms of algae ...

(AP) — Asteroid samples fetched by NASA ... said one of the biggest surprises was the relatively high abundance of nitrogen, including ammonia. While all of the organic molecules found in the Bennu ...