Analysis of samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu reveal that it has a bizarre chemical make-up and is ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

Scientists have since been analyzing these samples to uncover their chemical composition. Bennu is classed as a near-Earth asteroid, meaning that it makes its closest approach to Earth every six ...

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

The researchers plan to compare the Ryugu sample with that taken from the asteroid Bennu when NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returns to Earth later this year. Joshua Hawkins Writer Josh Hawkins has ...

Bennu was the target for NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sampling mission ... and then brought that sample back to Earth for a landing in the Utah desert in September 2023. While the odds of Bennu ...

After examining just 0.06% of a 120-gram material sample from the surface of asteroid Bennu — which returned to Earth in Utah's west desert in September 2023 — a group of scientists has ...

Science correspondent Allan Blackman joins Kathryn to talk about what samples of the asteroid Bennu reveal about the building blocks of life on Earth. Meanwhile the odds of 'city killer' asteroid 2024 ...

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

A Bennu-type asteroid could lead to “severe environmental consequences,” researchers write, while acknowledging that a collision is not likely.