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

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

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 ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ingredients essential to life, such as water, phosphate, and ammonia. Together, ...

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

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

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

After those samples arrived on Sept. 24, 2023, we got to dive ... but they’re sometimes found in dried-up lake beds on Earth, like Searles Lake in California. Bennu’s rocks formed 4.5 billion years ...

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 ...

Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples ... says. "They may be due to differences in parent bodies or formation pathways, or the Bennu asteroid ...