Scanning electron microscope images of trona found in samples of the asteroid Bennu returned by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. Trona is water-bearing sodium carbonate, also known commonly as soda ash.

Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The ...

Researchers used a powerful scanning electron microscope to examine extremely ... The unexpected discovery of sodium carbonate in the Bennu samples led researchers to investigate further.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...

Analysis of samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu reveal that it has a bizarre chemical make-up and is unusually magnetic ...

The probe had collected this sample from the surface of ... They examined barely visible grains of Bennu using the transmission electron microscope of the Schwiete Cosmochemistry Laboratory ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 Bennu after the mission returned its samples to Earth in 2023.

September of 2023 was an exciting month for space exploration when OSIRIS-REx finally returned to Earth, dropping off the samples it had collected from the potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu.

In 2016, NASA embarked on a new and unique mission: sending the Osiris-REx spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid Bennu to study the rocky space object and collect samples to return to ...

It was carrying rock and dust samples collected by the spacecraft from the asteroid Bennu in 2020. Those samples will prove useful to scientists born centuries from now. "Those samples will be ...

Trump touts relentless start to term in speech to Congress, drawing catcalls from Democrats In the longest presidential address to Congress in modern U.S. history, Trump spoke in celebratory mode ...