NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how deep it went. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

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The mission team targeted Bennu because it thought they’d find “water-bearing minerals,” said Dante Lauretta, University of Arizona professor and the mission’s principal investigator.

Bennu was also an attractive target because it skirts the asteroid belt, which circles the sun between Mars and Jupiter. At its closest, the asteroid is 200 million miles from Earth. While still a ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission found ingredients for DNA and RNA on the asteroid Bennu. The discovery shows asteroids could seed planets with the precursors for life. It's also more evidence that life ...

This image is an energy-dispersive spectrometry map of an unprepared grain of asteroid Bennu. Phosphorous is shown in green, calcium in red, iron in yellow and magnesium in blue.

An evaporite sequence from ancient brine recorded in Bennu samples. Nature, 2025; 637 (8048): 1072 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08495-6 ...

Dean chats with Dr. Nicole Lunning from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, who explains the challenges and successes of collecting samples from asteroid Bennu. Plus, a recap of the April 2024 solar eclipse!

Space Astronomy Asteroids 'Potentially hazardous' asteroid Bennu contains the building blocks of life and minerals unseen on Earth, scientists reveal in 1st comprehensive analysis News ...

Johnson also mentioned the Near Earth Object Surveyor mission, planned for 2026, which will help NASA map objects of Bennu’s size in the Solar System.

The Bennu sample capsule hurtled toward Earth at more than 27,000 miles-per-hour before touching down safely in the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range. An Information Goldmine ...

The asteroid Bennu is one of the most likely objects to collide with Earth – and a time capsule from the Solar System's early days. Nasa's Osiris-Rex mission has captured it in never-before-seen ...