NASA’s OSIRIS-REx brought back to Earth 121 grams of material from asteroid Bennu. This is the largest sample ever collected ...

The Bennu discovery helps to illuminate how, early in the Solar System’s history, asteroids and other planetary building blocks were not just “lumps of stone and ice, but active ‘living’ objects”, ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-metre-wide asteroid 320 ...

New research overseen by a Rowan University professor may help support that theory.

Bennu is a carbon-rich asteroid whose components have remained relatively unchanged since the solar system's early days. NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex mission captured samples from the surface of the asteroid and ...

“The asteroid’s composition is consistent with that of carbonaceous asteroids that formed outside of Jupiter’s orbit during the formation of the solar system,” said Dr Mario Fischer ...

The team using the ALS examined a sample from the surface of a carbonaceous-type asteroid, Ryugu. They expected this asteroid to be similar to carbonaceous chondrite meteorites. Ryugu is ...

Harvard University-affiliated astronomers announced the discovery of a new asteroid zooming precariously close to Earth — only to learn it was actually a Tesla sports car launched by Elon Musk ...

The asteroid was identified as a C-type, or carbonaceous, asteroid. This new research refutes earlier claims that a comet caused the extinction event. Instead, it confirms the asteroid's impact as ...

Recent research has significantly advanced our understanding of asteroids, particularly the carbonaceous asteroid Ryugu, which was studied through samples returned by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft.