Bennu is a medium-sized asteroid. According to NASA, Bennu is about one-third of a mile (half a kilometer) wide at its equator. That's far smaller than the six-mile (10-kilometer) wide behemoth ...

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with Earth, a study has ...

Scientists recently completed computer simulations of what would happen to Earth if it were impacted by an asteroid with a diameter the size of the ...

Bennu was the target for NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sampling mission, which touched down briefly on the space rock in October 2020 to gather over 4 ounces of material, and then brought that sample ...

Scientists have confirmed the presence of organic molecules on the surface of the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, opening the ... That is, according to NASA's Nicky Fox, our textbooks on the origins ...

The asteroid was the subject of a historic NASA mission, OSIRIS-REx, which snagged a piece of Bennu in October 2020 and dropped it off on Earth in September 2023. The mission allowed scientists to ...

Astronomers estimate that Bennu has a 1 in 2,700 chance of affecting ... to recent studies of samples returned to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, is a medium-size space rock reaching about ...

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New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking ...

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Jim Free, associate administrator at NASA, is set to retire on Feb. 22 after three decades of service.