Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The ...

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

Smithsonian and NASA scientists set out to collect an asteroid sample that may hold clues to the origins of life in our solar system.

A modern case in point: The asteroid Bennu contains all the materials needed ... then collected a 120g sample before landing back on Earth in 2023. Since then, scientists around the world have ...

New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking Earth are almost zero after earlier data had indicated a higher risk of a ...

New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit ...

it also collected a precious sample of dust and small rocks from Bennu's rubbly surface. In September 2023, a capsule containing the pristine asteroid sample returned to Earth, landing in the Utah ...

Bennu’s potential collision with Earth is a remote but unsettling possibility, according to a new study. Bennu is about 500 metres wide—taller than the Empire State Building and as wide as ...

The samples from Bennu also seem to be richer in volatiles than samples taken from the asteroid Ryugu by the ... nitrogen as soon as possible after its landing. Furthermore, a mobile clean room ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

and careful curation and storage of this precious material from Bennu." ‘Touchdown’: Nasa’s Asteroid Sample Comes Blasting Down To Earth, Landing In Utah Researchers stressed that the compounds ...

NASA spacecraft touched down on the rugged surface of the Bennu asteroid on Tuesday, grabbing a sample of rocks dating back to the birth of our solar system to bring home. The minivan-sized OSIRIS ...