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

Asteroid samples ... from Earth." Bennu — a rubble pile just one-third of a mile (one-half of a kilometer) across — was originally part of a much larger asteroid that got clobbered by other ...

OSIRIS-REx later arrived at the asteroid in late December 2018 after surveying for a few years the spacecraft prepared to descend to Bennu's surface. After collecting samples in October 2020 ...

Scientists have discovered the essential building blocks to life on a sample from a distant asteroid. The sample ... The researchers behind the first study received slices of the Bennu sample, which ...

WASHINGTON – NASA has unveiled discoveries made from examining a sample taken from the asteroid Bennu ... the research team said they found evidence that Bennu was rich in salts and other ...

Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced on Wednesday.

Samples of matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building blocks of life to Earth, scientists report in a pair of new studies published ...

Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five years ago.

"The Centre is one of the few places in the world which could verify if the salts were in fact extraterrestrial in origin or if they had ... from returned samples of asteroid Bennu may provide ...

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

Scientists have discovered the essential building blocks to life on a sample from a distant asteroid ... study received slices of the Bennu sample, which they examined under a scanning electron ...