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NASA will need your help mapping asteroid Bennu

March 6, 2019

Carina Bennett with the UA-led OSIRIS-REx mission discusses how the mission plans to use crowdsourcing platform CosmoQuest to help map asteroid Bennu.

Read more at Space.com

The newest pictures of asteroid Bennu are unreal

Jan. 28, 2019

The UA-led OSIRIS-REx mission has released some of its most detailed images yet of its target, the asteroid Bennu.

Read more at Gizmodo

Asteroid-circling spacecraft grabs cool snapshot of home

Jan. 7, 2019

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft took a picture of asteroid Bennu, the Earth and the moon days before going into orbit around Bennu on Dec. 31.

Read more at The Associated Press

A NASA spacecraft has set records after entering orbit around an asteroid

Dec. 30, 2018

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft entered into orbit around the asteroid Bennu, making Bennu the smallest object ever to be orbited by a spacecraft.

Read more at Time

Getting the dirt on creation: Inside OSIRIS-REx's first close look at Bennu

Dec. 18, 2018

"The findings are really, really exciting for us," said OSIRIS-REx principal investigator Dante Lauretta during a news conference at the American Geophysical Union meeting.

Read more at Scientific American

NASA 'hits the jackpot' in mission to bring back a sample from an asteroid

Dec. 9, 2018

Observations made during the spacecraft's approach of Bennu reveal that that the asteroid interacted with water in its early history and is an excellent specimen for the mission.

Read more at Daily Mail

Water found on asteroid by OSIRIS-REx explorer

Dec. 9, 2018

Observations made by the UA-led OSIRIS-REx spacecraft reveal that that the asteroid interacted with water in its early history and is an excellent specimen for the mission.

Read more at CNN