NASA’s study of Bennu reveals why its rocky surface behaves like sand. The answer lies in cracks deep inside its boulders.

NASA will lay out a plan to destroy asteroid Bennu, an enormous space rock comparable to the size of the Empire State Building. According to astronomers, this can threaten the life of humans if it ...

Tiny bits of asteroid Bennu that landed in Houston are doing a lot more than sitting in a display case. Scientists at NASA’s ...

In one of the biggest surprises of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, its target asteroid, Bennu, turned out to be a jagged, rugged ...

Bennu looked far different up close than scientists expected, and that mismatch led to a deeper investigation into how asteroid surfaces behave. What researchers found in returned samples helped ...

The surface of asteroid Bennu has long left questions for scientists after a NASA planetary science mission showed the ...

NASA is about to recover a cup's worth of rocks and dirt from the mysterious asteroid Bennu. Credit: NASA Over the past seven years, a NASA spacecraft has put 4.4 billion miles on the odometer as it ...

NASA explains why asteroid Bennu appeared different than expected, as OSIRIS REx data and lab analysis reveal cracked rocks ...

A space rock is making big news this weekend. And it could make even bigger news next century. Potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid Bennu, the subject of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission that's set to ...

No, it’s not necessarily the premise of a Netflix movie, per se. But humanity could be faced with an asteroid hitting Earth in the near future — depending on what you consider “near.” In a recent ...