This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 images taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from ... [+] a range of 15 miles. As wide as The Eiffel Tower is tall, the asteroid Bennu is a ...

Nearly 60 years later, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu, similar to the one that rained rocks over Revelstoke. Our research team has ...

This undated image made available by NASA shows the asteroid Bennu from the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. This undated image made available by NASA shows the asteroid Bennu from the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.

Image: NASA, ESA, STScI, J. Li (PSI) As unlikely as an impact from Bennu is, researchers are determined to put Earth’s fate firmly in Earthlings’ hands. NASA’s successful Double Asteroid ...

This mosaic image shows the asteroid Bennu, composed of 12 PolyCam images collected on December 2, 2018 by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a range of 15 miles (24 km). Asteroid 2024 YR4 was spotted ...

Sending a spacecraft to a near-Earth asteroid, gathering dust and rock ... highlighted in purple in this false-colored image, in the Bennu sample. - Rob Wardell/Tim McCoy/Smithsonian Two studies ...

Overall, they write, a Bennu-type asteroid could lead to “severe environmental consequences,” reducing land photosynthesis by 36 percent and marine photosynthesis by 25 percent. That would in ...

If the near-Earth asteroid Bennu were to collide with Earth in the future, the space rock could cause substantial global damage, even though it’s a fraction of the size of the asteroid that ...

In 2023, samples from the asteroid Benu ... found in the Bennu samples have been identified before in meteorites, Glavin said the ones from Bennu are valid — "real extraterrestrial organic ...