A Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) review of data collected from near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu supports the ...

Known as 101955 Bennu – or simply Bennu – the asteroid, discovered in September 1999 is the size of five football fields and weighs approximately 79billion kg – 1,664 times as heavy as the ...

A Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) review of data collected from near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu supports the ...

A groundbreaking study recently published in the Planetary Science Journalhas raised the possibility that asteroids Bennu, ...

NASA scientists used a slingshot manoeuvre around the Earth in their mission to land a spacecraft on an asteroid. The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith ...

But on a return trip later in the century, it is estimated the asteroid known as 101955 Bennu could actually strike our planet. Dante Lauretta, the NASA expert in charge of a new mission to ...

NASA's spacecraft OSIRIS-REx has arrived at tiny distant asteroid 101955 Bennu safe and sound. The mission will collect samples from the distant asteroid and return them to Earth.

The asteroid, formally designated as 101955 Bennu, is blasting through space at 63,000 miles per hour and experts have warned of “dire” consequences if the 79 billion kilogram rock smashes ...

NASA’s probe Osiris-REX plans on taking a surface sample from the 101955 Bennu asteroid next year in hope the 262-metre-wide space rock travelling at 31,317mph, 190,000 miles out in space, will ...

The giant space rock, 101955 Bennu, which was discovered in 1999, has a diameter of 1,600ft (500m) and orbits the Sun every six years at a speed of 63,000mph.