THE SAMPLES: NASA collected twice as much asteroid dust from Bennu as planned “Data from OSIRIS-REx adds major brushstrokes to a picture of a solar system teeming with the potential for life ...

Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The ...

Analysis of samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu reveal that it has a bizarre chemical make-up and is unusually magnetic ...

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

The asteroid Bennu ... apart," Scheeres said. Bennu could hold secrets about the origins of life Bennu is one of the most potentially hazardous asteroids in our solar system, according to the ...

With the return of an Asteroid Bennu sample ... evolved or might persist in the Solar System.” But it’s not just these occurrences of salt minerals in Bennu samples. Researchers are seeing ...

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, launched in 2016, arrived at Bennu in late 2018 and started orbiting the asteroid, which was thought to be a remnant of the solar system’s formation. OSIRIS-REx found ...

A sample from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu has been found ... Sign up Like other asteroids, Bennu "is a relic of the early solar system", said Al Jazeera. Because its present-day chemistry ...

[Photo/Agencies] LOS ANGELES -- Studies of the samples from asteroid Bennu brought back to Earth by NASA's spacecraft have revealed that the early solar system had widespread conditions and ...