The list of amazing features to talk about here is seriously extensive, and one quick look at this thing makes it perfectly ...

Asteroids are usually grouped into three main types based on what they are made of: C-type, S-type and M-type.

Ultimately, you chose a site called Nightingale in a northern crater of Bennu—why? I was hoping that the team would come to a uniform consensus—unanimous—and that it would be overwhelmingly obvious ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...

Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

RAW color commentator Pat McAfee is currently on hiatus from calling the show and has been missing for the past three weeks.

The Field Museum is the new temporary home to a tiny piece of pristine asteroid. The fragment of the asteroid Bennu, on loan from NASA, won't be on display for visitors, but will give scientists the ...

Despite the slightly higher chance of impact, the risks from Bennu shouldn’t keep anyone awake at night. There’s more than a 99.9 percent chance that Bennu will not hit Earth in the next three ...

An international team of scientists put the idea to the test thanks to mountains of data regarding OSIRIS-REx’s recent asteroid target Bennu.

Researchers believe this 4.6-billion-year-old piece of rock could reveal compounds present at the beginning of the solar system and the building blocks of life.

Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...

The spacecraft grabbed so much of the asteroid Bennu, its sample-collection device got jammed. Now the material is safe and sound. A series of images from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the ...