A powerful new telescope in Chile is set to transform astronomy, and its first pictures of stellar nurseries and galaxies ...

The team focused on periods when researchers knew OSIRIS-REx’s position relative to Bennu to within a meter (3.3 feet), based on images the spacecraft was taking of the asteroid’s surface.

The spacecraft zoomed by the asteroid at 30,000 miles per hour on Sunday, snapping images with its high-resolution Lucy Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (L’LORRI) from 600 miles away.

This “super-resolution” view of the asteroid Bennu was created using eight images obtained by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on Oct. 29 from about 205 miles away.

Scientists said the footage showing the OSIRIS-REx space mission making "a good mess" on the asteroid Bennu, more than 200 million miles away, is a clear sign of success.

DANTE LAURETTA: Bennu is a near-Earth asteroid, which means its orbit comes very close to that of the earth. And it’s somewhat infamous for being known as the most potentially hazardous asteroid. And ...

It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it flew past Earth, which was then recovered in the desert of the U.S. state of ...

A mosaic image of asteroid Bennu, composed of 12 PolyCam images collected by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a range of 24 kilometers. (Credit: ... Scientists at Kyushu University in Japan analyzed ...

Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building blocks of life ... High resolution photos of asteroid materials revealed.

Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building blocks of life ... High resolution photos of asteroid materials revealed.

Abundant ammonia and nitrogen-rich soluble organic matter in samples from asteroid (101955) Bennu. Nature Astronomy , 2025; DOI: 10.1038/s41550-024-02472-9 Cite This Page : ...

After successfully removing two final fasteners on Jan. 10, members of the @astromaterials team photographed the #OSIRISREx asteroid sample with a special technique to achieve super high-res images.