Earth-originating examples of minerals found in Bennu samples. These specimens are from the U.S. National Mineral Collection at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and show the ...

Researchers from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History conducted this study. “We now know from Bennu that the raw ingredients of life were combining in really interesting and co ...

Prof Sara Russell, a cosmic mineralogist from the Natural History Museum in London, expressed excitement over the discovery. “Every grain is telling us something new about Bennu,” she said.