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A few ounces of rock and dust retrieved from the distant asteroid Bennu show evidence of the building blocks of life.

Asteroid Bennu is a potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid that was studied by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission from 2018 to 2021.

Bennu’s parent asteroid likely broke apart 1 to 2 billion years ago, and some of the fragments came together to form the rubble pile we know as Bennu.

A sample from asteroid Bennu contains organic compounds usually found at midocean ridges on Earth, suggesting Bennu may have been part of an ancient ocean world.

Space & Spaceflight Here’s What Would Happen If Asteroid Bennu Hit Earth Bennu has a 1-in-2,700 chance of colliding with Earth in 2182, causing a global winter and drought.

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

The first compound the team discovered in the Bennu sample was sodium carbonate, which had never been observed before in any other asteroid or meteorite.

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water world.

In 2023, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale of rock, ice and water that hints at how life could have ...