Every six years, an asteroid by the name of Bennu passes by Earth. Bennu is a small, loosely compacted ball of black rocks that formed nearly 4.6 billion years ago. Recently, scientists ...

NASA’s mission, in a way, is already in progress. The agency’s OSIRIS-REx mission—having successfully visited the asteroid Bennu in 2020 and returning a sample three years later—has now ...

Water-rich meteorites contain key ingredients for life, yet they barely appear in meteorite collections. Recent research ...

One of these lumps became the asteroid Bennu whose minerals, recently returned to Earth by the US robot space probe OSIRIS-REx, have now been found to contain rich levels of complex chemicals that are ...

Scientists have found special chemical compounds necessary for the existence of life in samples collected from asteroid Bennu. They believe the asteroid is a plant-like object rich in water and ...

Brand new research has produced a better estimate of its size and orbit ... mechanics. The asteroid is likely fully solid, and not a rubble pile like the large asteroids Bennu and Ryugu.