In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...

So it is important to think about the risk." Bennu, a carbon-rich asteroid formed as part of a ... collected 120 grams of samples from Bennu in 2020 and delivered them to Earth in September ...

The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life ...

Researchers have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in unprecedented samples collected from the ...

"So this, of course ... mission to an asteroid A mission called OSIRIS-REx landed on an asteroid named Bennu in 2020, jammed its arm into the rock's surface, and scooped up a heaping sample ...

So far, the samples are delivering on the promise that made OSIRIS-REx such a compelling mission, and our understanding of the cosmos is all the better for it. Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 2.2% chance ...

Researchers have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in unprecedented samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu ... Bennu in October 2020 by a NASA mission ...

So what would happen should Bennu strike our planet? Well, it would not be pretty, according to new research based on computer simulations of an impact by an asteroid with a diameter of roughly ...

(NASA Goddard) Collected in October of 2020 ... in Earth's atmosphere, so studying meteorites we would unlikely see these minerals." READ MORE: Newfound 'city-killer' asteroid has chance of ...

The clues they are searching for are so tiny and fragile ... briefly touched down on Bennu on Oct. 20, 2020, to collect samples from the near-Earth asteroid. After a journey of more than 4 ...