A Bennu stone is on display at Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in the US capital Washington. Other Bennu samples are being studied by NASA and several other research institutions.

It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but the wait is proving to be worth it. A new study published January 29 in ...

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”, ...

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were present ...

The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh received a rapturous welcome from a Nepali hillside village on the last day of their tour.

The Duke of Edinburgh joked with his wife as he planted a tree in a Nepali garden, next to two that were planted by his ...

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were present in the early days of our solar system, as detailed in a series of papers ...

While Bennu harbours an intriguing mix of raw ingredients, researchers haven’t confirmed whether this rolling stone’s creative juices could’ve formed advanced organic structures a la the ...

This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 images taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from ... [+] a range of 15 miles. As wide as The Eiffel Tower is tall, the asteroid Bennu is a ...

Although the chances of impact are slim, Bennu is still one of the most potentially hazardous known asteroids in our solar system, and we need to be prepared for what could come. A first-of-its ...