The near-Earth asteroid Bennu contains stardust that is older than the solar system and clues about its violent history, ...

Asteroid Bennu—the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample return mission, led by the University of Arizona—is a mixture of ...

Learn how rock and dust samples are shedding light on the origins of Asteroid Bennu and the history of the early Solar System ...

The latest research on asteroid Bennu has revealed its heterogeneous origin and a parent world with flowing water, adding to ...

Space weathering expert Michelle Thompson OSIRIS-REx reveals why some gray asteroids reflect light at different wavelengths, like red or blue, more strongly. These results help shed light onto the ...

Rex mission has yielded a groundbreaking discovery from asteroid Bennu in the form of presolar grains, stardust older than ...

Some of the most basic building blocks of the solar system are missing from one of its most dangerous asteroids.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration analyses the samples from asteroid Bennu, unveiling a complex history of ...

NASA's spacecraft Osiris Rex briefly touched the surface of the asteroid Bennu, using a robotic arm to collect around 120g of ...

Canadian researchers, members of NASA's OSIRIS-REx international science team, have contributed to new studies related to the ...