101955 Bennu (provisional designation 1999 RQ36) is a carbonaceous asteroid in the Apollo group discovered by the LINEAR Project on 11 September 1999. It is a potentially hazardous …

May 12, 2025 · Bennu is a relatively small asteroid that passes close to Earth about every six years. Bennu was the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. mission to collect a sample …

Aug 25, 2025 · The near-Earth asteroid Bennu contains stardust that is older than the solar system and clues about its violent history, three new studies of the asteroid's sample materials …

Bennu’s parent asteroid likely broke apart 1 to 2 billion years ago, and some of the fragments came together to form the rubble pile we know as Bennu. These minerals are also found on …

2 days ago · NASA's OSIRIS-REx reveals asteroid Bennu contains life's building blocks, shedding light on Earth's origins and the potential for extraterrestrial life.

Oct 16, 2020 · Bennu is a primordial artifact preserved in the vacuum of space, orbiting among planets and moons and asteroids and comets. Because it is so old, Bennu could be made of …

Bennu is a very small asteroid whose orbit crosses the orbit of Earth. NASA JPL has classified Bennu as a "Potentially Hazardous Asteroid" due to its predicted close pass (es) with Earth.

Feb 8, 2025 · Just as a quick reminder, Bennu is a rubble pile asteroid that was visited by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from 2018-2021, with the spacecraft scooping up a sample from the …

Studies from Earth revealed that Bennu is a rare carbon-rich asteroid. Bennu is quite dark, reflecting only 4.5% of the light that hits it. This means that Bennu absorbs much of the Sun's …

1 day ago · Scientists Discover Ancient Mineral-Rich Brine on Samples of the Asteroid Bennu Museum researchers Cari Corrigan (left) and Tim McCoy (right) examine scanning electron …