Asteroid Bennu may have formed much closer to the Sun than scientists thought
Isotope measurements from asteroid Bennu closely match those of asteroid Ryugu and rare CI carbonaceous chondrites, suggesting all…
In 2010, NASA’s asteroid probe touched Bennu for seconds, sank almost 20 inches into loose rock and blasted roughly six tons of debris away |
This mosaic of Bennu was assembled from observations gathered by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft that orbited the asteroid for…
Quantifying Surface Heterogeneity Across Asteroid (101955) Bennu using Candidate Site Remote Sensing Data
Locations of the four candidate sites across a 2D map projection of Bennu’s surface captured by the OSIRIS-REx…
Scientists Find Presolar Stardust in Samples from Asteroid Bennu
Researchers have detected an unexpectedly high abundance of presolar grains — dust from stellar explosions predating our Solar…
Scientists Find Extraterrestrial Bio-Essential Sugars in Samples from Asteroid Bennu
A team of researchers from the United States and Japan has analyzed an extract from a sample of…
In 4 years, 2 billion people will be able to witness a unique phenomenon in the sky
Space is both an exciting and mysterious place, and it is important to know that many celestial objects…