REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Bennu may look like one solid mass from afar, but it's not. Instead, it is loose collection of boulders, rocks, and gravel that all clumped together due to their mutual gravitational pull on each ...

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In 2020, we wrote a paper about big white veins — like a meter long, 10 centimeters thick — on the rocks and boulders of Bennu. We thought those were carbonates that formed in water, which is ...

But even before these samples are analysed, Bennu has already been surprising scientists. Its surface, for example, was found to be strewn with large boulders over ten metres in size, whilst ...

A space rock is making big news this weekend. And it could make even bigger news next century. Potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid Bennu, the subject of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission that's set ...

Bennu poses no imminent danger to Earth, and NASA hasn't ever issued a collision warning for this asteroid, or any other. The asteroid has a "close approach" to Earth every six years, though space ...

Hopping space dust makes asteroids look rougher Date: July 11, 2022 Source: University of Colorado at Boulder Summary: When NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at the asteroid Bennu, scientists ...

Asteroid Bennu nearly swallowed the OSIRIS-REx probe when it touched down on the rock to collect a sample, revealing that the space rock's nature was much different than scientists had thought.

Unusual findings Bennu's large craters follow this pattern, with the numbers of craters decreasing as their size increases, but only to a point. However, for craters smaller than about 6.6 feet, the ...

This image shows asteroid Bennu's boulder-covered surface. It was taken by the PolyCam camera on NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on April 11, 2019 from a distance of 2.8 miles (4.5 km).

This image shows asteroid Bennu’s boulder-covered surface. It was taken by the PolyCam camera on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on April 11, 2019 from a distance of 2.8 miles (4.5 km).