NASA's spacecraft OSIRIS-REx has finally reached the asteroid 101955 Bennu—which may be on collision course with the Earth—after traveling for just over two years since its launch in September ...

Officially designated 101955 Bennu, the space rock was selected as a destination of NASA's first ever asteroid sample collection mission, the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, ...

NASA would be attempting to land the spacecraft, OSIRIS-REx, to the carbonaceous rock, Asteroid 101955, also known as "Bennu," on Tuesday, October 20, around 3:12 in the afternoon, Pacific Time (PT).

Yu Jiang, Jürgen Schmidt From Jan. 6, 2019 to Feb. 18, 2019, OSIRIS-REx observed asteroid (101955) Bennu ejecting 11 plumes of dust, of which part is escaping and another part […] ...

2.9K. Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 Bennu after the mission returned its samples to Earth in 2023.

The samples were taken from the near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu by the NASA mission OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. attempt to retrieve and analyze samples from an asteroid.

Researchers are analyzing materials returned from asteroid 101955 Bennu, and they don't look exactly like chondrules seen in meteorites. Skip to content. Introducing the all-new Astronomy.com Forum!

In 2018, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission reached asteroid 101955 Bennu. Two years later, the spacecraft snagged a sample of its surface, which has since been returned to Earth.

More information: Daniel Glavin, Abundant ammonia and nitrogen-rich soluble organic matter in samples from asteroid (101955) Bennu, Nature Astronomy (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41550-024-02472-9.

A study published in the peer-reviewed journal Icarus on Nov. 15, 2021, titled, “Ephemeris and hazard assessment for near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu based on OSIRIS-REx data,” set out to ...