Learn about the surprising surface of Asteroid Bennu, loaded with boulders and cracks that have caused it to experience rapid ...

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

A multidisciplinary team led by Andrew Ryan has published new work that pins Bennu’s unexpectedly low thermal inertia on ...

NASA scientists say they have finally pinned down why asteroid Bennu looks so jagged and chaotic up close. Images and ...

The Bennu's newly found rugged surface, after additional testing, could rewrite what we know about ancient asteroids.

The surface of asteroid Bennu has long left questions for scientists after a NASA planetary science mission showed the asteroid was actually more rough and jagged than previously expected.

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 ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission faced an unexpected challenge when its target, asteroid Bennu, revealed a rugged landscape filled with large boulders instead of the anticipated smooth patches.

A close-up of the surface of asteroid Ryugu. (MASCOT/DLR/JAXA) A new analysis of samples collected from asteroid Ryugu has yielded all five canonical nucleobases that make up RNA and DNA. It's not the ...

There’s certainly nothing living on the asteroid Bennu, an airless, 1,614-ft. rubble pile orbiting the sun about 40.2 million miles from Earth. But that doesn’t mean that Bennu hasn’t all at once ...