Now a different group has looked at its orbital past, suggesting a likely place of origin: the middle of the main asteroid ...

Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid (NEA), whose orbit keeps it within 1.3 astronomical units of the Sun. (One astronomical unit, or AU, is the average Earth-Sun distance of 93 million ...

Bennu, designated a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid due to its size and Earth-crossing orbit, has a 1-in-1,750 chance of hitting Earth on Sept. 24, 2182. Neither 2024 YR4 nor Bennu are near the ...

At the same time, Bennu was also flinging marble-size bits of rock away from its surface. Those crumbs entered orbit around the asteroid, and then some of them fell back to its surface.

A new study suggests Bennu may have formed beyond Saturn’s orbit, carrying materials from the coldest regions of the solar system. Berkeley Lab plans further infrared and X-ray analysis of Bennu ...

The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists, with samples from the space rock showing weirder properties than they expected. These include extremely high nitrogen levels and improbably magnetic ...

If Bennu were to collide with the planet ... This asteroid hasn’t been seen since 2007, making its exact orbit unclear. There is a very low probability (1 in 10 million) that 2007 FT3 could ...

According to Tsai, Bennu is just the beginning ... That’s closer than some satellites currently in orbit. The close call will give NASA another chance to collect samples and data on the asteroid ...

A capsule carrying precious samples from asteroid Bennu landed on Earth on Sunday ... Space Station send a festive message from orbit, some 250 miles (400km) above Earth. Elizabeth Rizzini ...

23: Autumn is here The autumnal equinox is one of two points in Earth’s orbit where the sun creates ... a NASA spacecraft swooped in on Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, and scooped up rock and ...