Cracks and fractures in Bennu's surface seem to have been caused by heat from the sun, stunning images from NASA ... Security-Regolith Explorer) arrived at Bennu in 2018 after a two-year ...

This trio of images acquired by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows a wide shot and two close-ups of a region in asteroid Bennu's northern hemisphere. The wide-angle image (left), obtained by the ...

Get ready to become a lot more familiar with Bennu as OSIRIS-REx draws ever closer in the coming months, and then spends 2019 orbiting the asteroid as close as just 1.5 km (1 mile) above its surface.

The near-Earth asteroid Bennu has been in an orbit that brings it near to Earth for 1.75 million years, based on a study of craters on the asteroid’s surface.

Following Tuesday's historic touchdown on the asteroid Bennu, NASA has released never-before-seen images of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft kicking up rocks and debris on the space rock's surface.

This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 PolyCam images collected on Dec. 2 by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a range of 15 miles (24 km).

Lauretta said the initial images of Bennu were "good news" to the navigation team. "First of all, the asteroid was right where we thought it was, so it's there and it's waiting for us," he said.

image: OSIRIS-REx mission ... The team concluded that very little fine regolith is produced by Bennu's highly porous rocks because these rocks are compressed rather than fragmented by meteoroid ...

Asteroid Bennu is a potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid that was studied by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission from 2018 to 2021.

The near-Earth asteroid Bennu has been in an orbit that brings it near to Earth for 1.75 million years, based on a study of craters on the asteroid’s surface.