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 ...

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 ...

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.

Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...

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

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 ...

Pristine samples collected from ... observed difference," Oba says. "They may be due to differences in parent bodies or formation pathways, or the Bennu asteroid was exposed to a cold molecular ...

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