Bennu is a medium-sized asteroid. According to NASA, Bennu is about one-third of a mile (half a kilometer) wide at its equator. That's far smaller than the six-mile (10-kilometer) wide behemoth ...

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with Earth, a study has ...

Studies on asteroid Bennu's chemical building blocks deepens the mystery. Credit: Christoph Burgstedt / iStock / Getty Images illustration When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid ...

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New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking ...

REx mission found minerals on asteroid Bennu that match California’s Searles Lake, offering clues about ancient water, ...