Famed Queen guitarist and citizen astronomer Brian May collaborated with NASA's asteroid mission OSIRIS-REx, helping ...

Bennu is one of the most hazardous known asteroids in our solar system. Thanks to a visit by a NASA spacecraft, scientists have a much greater understanding of the near-Earth asteroid, its ...

One proposed way of examining if such a force could exist is by closely monitoring asteroid trajectories, and few near-Earth ...

Bennu is the ancient Egyptian deity linked with the Sun, creation and rebirth. Watch: How NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will bring Bennu asteroid sample back to Earth No solar eclipse glasses?

Bennu has a 1 in nearly 1,800 chance to hit Earth in the next 300 years. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Asteroid Bennu is ...

The mission, which launched on Sept. 8, 2016, targeting the primordial asteroid Bennu, believed to have remained largely unchanged since the solar system's formation 4.6 billion years ago.

Ryugu and Bennu are two different near-Earth asteroids, but new research has suggested they were likely once part of the same larger asteroid “parent body.” The asteroids have the distinction ...

Bennu is about a third of a mile, or half a kilometer, wide. That is not nearly large enough to cause a planetwide extinction, but it could inflict a sizable swath of devastation.

Bennu's boulders Over the last two years, OSIRIS-REx has collected enough images of Bennu to map the asteroid's surface. Variations in the color and albedo (brightness) provide insights into the ...

Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid (NEA), whose orbit keeps it within 1.3 astronomical units of the Sun. (One astronomical unit, or AU, ...

Bennu is one of the most hazardous known asteroids in our solar system. Thanks to a visit by a NASA spacecraft, scientists have a much greater understanding of the near-Earth asteroid, its ...