Asteroid Bennu’s rugged surface has finally been explained
When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft first reached asteroid Bennu, scientists expected to find a sandy, beach-like surface. Instead, the…
Solving Asteroid Bennu’s Mysteries – NASA
These X-ray computed tomography (XCT) scans released on March 17, 2026, give us a glimpse inside asteroid Bennu.…
Asteroid Bennu’s Rugged Surface Baffled NASA, We Finally Know Why
In one of the biggest surprises of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, its target asteroid, Bennu, turned out to be…
Asteroid Bennu sample finds life’s building blocks formed in space ice
Penn State researchers think a key ingredient for life may have formed in deep freeze, not in a…
Scientists find key RNA component on an asteroid for the first time
A scanning electron microscope image of a micrometeorite impact crater in a particle of asteroid Bennu material (Image…
Plane-sized near-Earth asteroid nothing to worry about
But first, you probably won’t have noticed – but dozens of asteroids have flown past Earth since the…