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 ...

Nobody knows how life began on Earth, but some tantalizing clues from an asteroid suggest it might not have started here.

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 ...

NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces) of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert in 2023 before swooping off ...

Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

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.