Scientists have found special chemical compounds necessary for the existence of life in samples collected from asteroid Bennu ...

As the asteroid lines up for a planetary flyby in 2029, space agencies are coordinating to conduct some groundbreaking science.

According to the BBC’s ‘Science Focus,’ the world’s most expensive substances aren’t gold, silver, or platinum- they are far more unexpected. Asteroid Bennu Samples Gathered during NASA’s ‘OSIRIS-REx’ ...

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 Camping World CEO ...

Tantalizing clues in 4-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu samples could reveal particular molecular formations that some ...

One of these lumps became the asteroid Bennu whose minerals, recently returned to Earth by the US robot space probe OSIRIS-REx, have now been found to contain rich levels of complex chemicals that are ...

A planetary scientist explains new research explaining the differing compositions between space rocks that hit Earth and are ...

So, the OSIRIS‑REx mission ventured to the asteroid Bennu to retrieve an unaltered sample. Retrieving this sample allowed scientists to examine the asteroid’s composition in detail.