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 …

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 …

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 …

Jan 5, 2026 · Bennu and a handful of special asteroids like it are ancient objects, leftovers from the very earliest moments of planet formation in our solar system.

Aug 22, 2025 · Bennu has been the subject of intense scientific research over the past few years. Not only is the asteroid revealing more about the early years of the solar system, but it’s also …

Aug 25, 2025 · Her most recent magnus opus has been Bennu — the asteroid visited by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which brought home some of the oldest and most pristine asteroid …