Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...

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 ...

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

A 17.75 mg sample was processed and analyzed for N-heterocycles—organic molecules with a ring structure ... or the Bennu asteroid was exposed to a cold molecular cloud environment where ...

Overall, they write, a Bennu-type asteroid could lead to “severe environmental consequences,” reducing land photosynthesis by 36 percent and marine photosynthesis by 25 percent. That would in ...

Potential for alien life in our solar system Those water bodies are much bigger and have probably been around much longer than the water on Bennu's parent asteroid, so the chemical pathway to life ...

In 2018, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission reached asteroid 101955 Bennu. Two years later, the spacecraft snagged a sample of its surface, which has since been returned to Earth. Now, astronomers are ...

It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before ... the mineral grains' exact structure and determining their chemical composition at the same time.

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, according to research that provides some of the best evidence to date that such ...

A 17.75 mg sample was processed and analyzed for N-heterocycles—organic molecules with a ring structure containing carbon ... bodies or formation pathways, or the Bennu asteroid was exposed to a cold ...

A 17.75 mg sample was processed and analyzed for N-heterocycles -- organic molecules with a ring structure ... or the Bennu asteroid was exposed to a cold molecular cloud environment where ...

Rock and dust samples retrieved by Nasa from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks ... that play indispensable roles in the structure, function and regulation of living ...