When scientists cracked open the first grains from asteroid Bennu, they expected a time capsule of rock and dust. What they ...

Bits of rock and dust brought back from the distant asteroid Bennu contain some of the chemical building blocks of life, NASA announced Wednesday, a discovery that strengthens the theory that ...

NASA's first asteroid sample is the most pristine sample of its kind. Now, back on Earth, the sample from asteroid Bennu has already delivered surprising findings about the early solar system and ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

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.

The answer to the origins of life on Earth may lie scattered across the solar system. That’s why NASA launched a mission to the near-Earth asteroid Bennu in 2016. In 2020, the OSIRIS-REx mission made ...

NASA's astromaterials curation team at Johnson Space Center in Houston has revealed high-resolution photos of the materials from asteroid Bennu contained within the OSIRIS-REx sampler head. On Jan. 10 ...

Tim McCoy (right), the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History curator of meteorites and the co-lead author on the new paper, with Cari Corrigan (left) sein a scanning electron microscopy lab ...

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 ...