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 object that is …

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 from an …

According to Egyptian mythology, Bennu was a self-created being said to have played a role in the creation of the world. He was said to be the ba (personality component of the soul) of the sun deity …

Apr 23, 2025 · Bennu is a carbon-rich asteroid that is about one-third of a mile (half a kilometer) wide at its equator. An ancient relic of our solar system’s early days, asteroid Bennu has seen more than 4.5 …

Dec 5, 2025 · Rocks from Bennu are revealing a lost world from the dawn of the solar system, with the right conditions to foster the building blocks of life.

The wonderful Bennu, with its brilliant red and golden plumage, was the sacred bird of Heliopolis. The Bennu bird serves as the Egyptian correspondence to The Phoenix.

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 icy bodies in …

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 show.

Dec 4, 2025 · The Bennu asteroid, a space rock not too far from Earth that is rich in carbon, continues to be a trove of information for scientists keen to learn about how life may have begun in our solar...

Feb 10, 2025 · Now, astronomers are getting to know Bennu like never before — and a new study looks at how it could wreck us.