The proposed national US budget for 2026 contains a few nasty surprises for NASA, and some serious disappointments—among them ...

New ultraprecise measurements show that the asteroid Bennu has a higher chance than thought of impacting our planet sometime in the next 300 years, NASA says.

The asteroid appeared as a speck of light to the spacecraft’s UA-built PolyCam camera, but Bennu will seem to grow now that OSIRIS-REx has begun the approach phase of the mission.

A sample from the asteroid Bennu, the subject of the 2016 OSIRIS-REx mission, and a “near-Earth asteroid,” has arrived at the Field Museum. Uncontaminated by the Earth’s atmosphere, this ...

NASA predicts a large asteroid could impact Earth in the future, potentially affecting an area the size of Texas. Asteroid Bennu, passes by Earth roughly every six years, experts have been closely ...

The Field Museum is the new temporary home to a tiny piece of pristine asteroid. The fragment of the asteroid Bennu, on loan from NASA, won't be on display for visitors, but will give scientists ...

The spacecraft grabbed so much of the asteroid Bennu, its sample-collection device got jammed. Now the material is safe and sound. A series of images from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the ...

Recently two new observatories — NASA's SPHEREx and the Vera C Rubin Observatory — released their first images.

An asteroid that, until a few months ago, was believed to be a threat to Earth is increasingly looking like it could crash into the Moon in 2032.