The ancient black dust and chunks are from the carbon-rich asteroid named Bennu, almost 97 million kilometres away. NASA's OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft collected the samples three years ago.

On Sept. 24, NASA recovered a 250-gram dust sample from the Bennu asteroid, marking the first sample return of its kind in America and concluding the seven-year OSIRIS-REx mission. NASA Photo by ...

Surprisingly salty asteroid Bennu contains the building blocks of life Scott SutherlandMeteorologist, Science Writer Published on Feb. 3, 2025, 4:08 PM Updated on Feb. 3, 2025, 4:10 PM ...

Nasa has successfully landed the largest asteroid sample ever collected back on Earth. A capsule containing about 250g of rocks and dust collected from asteroid Bennu touched down in the Utah desert ...

Bennu, a carbon-rich asteroid that orbits as close as 300,000 kilometres to Earth, was part of an ancestral asteroid that formed in the early solar system about 4.5 billion years ago.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission will deliver on Sunday material collected back in 2020 from the surface of asteroid Bennu, located more than 200 million miles (322 million kilometres) from Earth.

Initial studies of the 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu sample collected in space and brought to Earth by NASA show evidence of high-carbon content and water, which together could indicate the ...

After a seven-year journey, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is returning to Earth with a sample of a small asteroid called Bennu. Canada’s partnership in the mission means that a portion of the ...

This image, taken on March 7, 2019, by the PolyCam camera on NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a distance of about 5 km, shows a view across asteroid Bennu's southern hemisphere and into space.

Bennu is one of the most hazardous known asteroids in our solar system. Thanks to a visit by a NASA spacecraft, scientists have a much greater understanding of the near-Earth asteroid, its ...

Bennu is expected to come dangerously close to Earth in 2182 — possibly close enough to hit. The data gleaned by Osiris-Rex will help with any asteroid-deflection effort, according to Lauretta.

FILE - This undated image provided by NASA shows the asteroid Bennu seen from the Osiris-Rex spacecraft. On Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2023, NASA showed off the samples delivered to Earth by a spacecraft ...