In 2016, NASA embarked on a new and unique mission: sending the Osiris-REx spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid Bennu to study the rocky space object and collect samples to return to ...

Material from an asteroid will "come screaming ... have analysed the material from Bennu, "it is unlikely that any aspect of its formation, evolution and orbital history, composition and ...

It is with a certain humility that Dr. Daniel Scheeres acknowledges that he has an asteroid named in his honor. Throughout his career, Dr. Scheeres has contributed extensively to the fields of ...

Probably. Either way, you should get to know an asteroid called 7482 (1994 PC1), the only one known whose orbital path will cross that of Earth’s consistently for the next millennium—and thus ...

If an incoming asteroid is ever on a collision course with our planet, the space agency has said that the DART method could ...

Here are five asteroids that pose the greatest risk to Earth. Discovered in 1999, asteroid Bennu currently poses the greatest risk to Earth. Though the chance of impact is only 0.037% (1 in 2,700 ...

A space capsule from NASA’s Osiris-REx mission to the asteroid Bennu landed in Utah on Sunday. The sample of rocks and dust—the largest ever collected from an asteroid—could help scientists ...

Bennu's dust is rich in carbon ... distinguishing it from similar findings in other asteroid samples. Dante Lauretta, principal investigator for OSIRIS-REx, noted that the presence and state ...

“Dizzy” was originally thought to be on a collision course with Earth during a future close pass in 2026, but refined orbital ... class asteroid, which means its orbit crosses the path of ...