Tantalizing clues in 4-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu samples could reveal particular molecular formations that some ...

Scientists have found special chemical compounds necessary for the existence of life in samples collected from asteroid Bennu ...

The mission, which launched on Sept. 8, 2016, targeting the primordial asteroid Bennu, believed to have remained largely unchanged since the solar system's formation 4.6 billion years ago.

That’s why NASA launched a mission to the near-Earth asteroid Bennu in 2016. In 2020, the OSIRIS-REx mission made history by successfully collecting a sample from the asteroid. This was the ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 Bennu after the mission returned its samples to Earth in 2023.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has been steadily progressing since the spacecraft arrived ...

Your browser does not support the video element. The asteroid Bennu just keeps getting more bizarre. When NASA decided to send a probe to land on a space rock and ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe is now in a holding pattern after a lengthy mission ...

In 2016, NASA embarked on a new and unique mission: sending the Osiris-REx spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid Bennu to study the rocky space object and collect samples to return to ...

A capsule carrying precious samples from asteroid Bennu landed on Earth on Sunday. Nasa scientists hope the material could give hints to how life here began. BBC Science editor Rebecca Morelle ...

OSIRIS-REx: To Bennu and Back is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet ...