The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were ...

Asteroid Bennu wasn’t what NASA expected. Instead of a smooth surface for sample collection, OSIRIS-REx encountered a chaotic ...

Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how deep it went. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Searles Lake has long been shaped by shifting water levels, volcanic minerals, and evaporite formation. In 2024, satellites ...

Instead, it is loose collection of boulders ... transport Bennu from space to the surface of Earth, it would collapse into a giant heap. Thus, Bennu is often referred to as a 'rubble pile' asteroid.

The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...

Last week, scientists who analyzed the rubble from a near-Earth asteroid reported their first detailed findings. The ...

(CNN) — Sending a spacecraft to a near-Earth asteroid, gathering dust and rock from its surface, and returning ... in October 2020 from the asteroid Bennu, among researchers around the globe.