101955 Bennu (provisional designation 1999 RQ36) is a carbonaceous asteroid in the Apollo group discovered by the LINEAR Project on 11 September 1999. It is a potentially hazardous …

2 days ago · Bennu is a relatively small asteroid that passes close to Earth about every six years. Bennu was the target of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from …

Jan 29, 2025 · In this video frame, Jason Dworkin holds up a vial that contains part of the sample from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral …

Oct 16, 2020 · Bennu is a carbonaceous asteroid that hasn’t undergone drastic, composition-altering change, meaning that on and below its deeper-than-pitch-black surface are chemicals …

Jan 29, 2025 · The CI chondrites and asteroid Bennu. To learn about an asteroid – a rocky or metallic object in orbit around the Sun – we started with a study of meteorites. Asteroids like …

Jan 29, 2025 · Material from Asteroid Bennu is revealing that a lost world fostered the building blocks of life…with an unexpected twist. Join experts on Thursday, January 30 at 3:00 p.m. ET …

Jan 29, 2025 · Asteroid Bennu is a 500m-wide pile of boulders, rocks and rubble. The chemical building blocks of life have been found in the grainy dust of an asteroid called Bennu, an …

Dec 20, 2024 · Bennu is a carbon-rich asteroid that is about one-third of a mile (half a kilometer) wide at its equator. An ancient relic of our solar system’s early days, asteroid Bennu has seen …

Nov 21, 2024 · Bennu was the target of NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission – OSIRIS-REx. The spacecraft successfully delivered the sample to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023. Scientists …

Dec 6, 2018 · On Dec. 3, after traveling billions of kilometers from Earth, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft reached its target, Bennu, and kicked off a nearly two-year, up-close investigation …