Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing asteroid Bennu samples, some of the most pristine ever ...

Scientists have since been analyzing these samples to uncover their chemical composition. Bennu is classed as a near-Earth asteroid, meaning that it makes its closest approach to Earth every six ...

The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were ...

The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every ...

Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids ...

Scientists found that asteroid Bennu contained a set of salty mineral deposits that formed in an exact sequence when a brine evaporated, leaving clues about the type of water that flowed billions of ...

Researchers have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in unprecedented samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid ... like Bennu once acted like giant chemical factories ...

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New research backs up the old hypothesis that the key ingredients for life may have come to Earth on an asteroid ... like Bennu are essentially time capsules, revealing the chemical makeup of ...

including some never before seen in asteroid samples. “This is all very exciting because it suggests that asteroids like Bennu once acted like giant chemical factories in space and could have ...

This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 images taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from ... [+] a range of 15 miles. As wide as The Eiffel Tower is tall, the asteroid Bennu is a ...

WASHINGTON — The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making ... that Bennu's samples bore some of the chemical building blocks of life, strong evidence ...