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 …

1 day ago · 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 …

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 …

1 day ago · 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 as …

1 day ago · The Bennu team is continuing to look at unstudied material from the asteroid sample to see if even more complex compounds are lurking inside. Some amino acids could have …

2 days ago · 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 …

1 day ago · NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces) of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert in 2023 …

1 day ago · Up close with extraterrestrial biology Bennu is a carbon-rich space rock known as a rubble pile asteroid. Scientists believe Bennu was once part of a larger “parent” asteroid that …

Dec 17, 2024 · Bennu is a relatively small asteroid that passes close to Earth about every six years. Bennu was the target of NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission, OSIRIS-REx. The …

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 …