Known as 101955 Bennu – or simply Bennu – the asteroid, discovered in September 1999 is the size of five football fields and weighs approximately 79billion kg – 1,664 times as heavy as the ...

NASA released the closest shot of the near-Earth asteroid 101955, Bennu, earlier this week. The picture, taken by the space agency's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, was shot from a distance of 0.4 miles ...

NASA's spacecraft OSIRIS-REx has finally reached the asteroid 101955 Bennu—which may be on collision course with the Earth—after traveling for just over two years since its launch in September ...

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NASA would be attempting to land the spacecraft, OSIRIS-REx, to the carbonaceous rock, Asteroid 101955, also known as "Bennu," on Tuesday, October 20, around 3:12 in the afternoon, Pacific Time (PT).

OSIRIS-REx is NASA’s exciting mission to near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu, which the spacecraft is set to reach in about a month, to collect and bring back a sample to help scientists better ...

Astronomers have discovered evidence of abundant water-bearing minerals on the surface of the near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu. Using early spectral data from NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx is on a mission to the space rock to bring a scientific souvenir home.

OSIRIS-REx wrapped up observations in May 2021 and departed Bennu to return the samples to Earth. The trek required 2½ years orbiting the Sun twice inside of Venus’ orbit.

If you plan to visit asteroid (101955) Bennu, you'll need a new map. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN) and NASA have decided that ...