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

"Hopefully, humans may be able to defend our planet from Bennu by deflecting its trajectory if it heads toward Earth." In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into the tiny asteroid Dimorphos as part of ...

The Nature paper found evidence of evaporated brine minerals, suggesting that Bennu's parent body - a larger proto-planet or ...

Every six years, an asteroid by the name of Bennu passes by Earth. Bennu is a small, loosely compacted ball of black rocks that formed nearly 4.6 billion years ago. Recently, scientists ...

Scientists found traces of briny water and salty minerals, similar to those on Europa and Enceladus, suggesting liquid water once flowed on Bennu. A new study suggests Bennu may have formed beyond ...