Asteroid Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old space rock, may hold clues to Earth's origins. With traces of water, amino acids, and ...

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

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar ...

Scientists have discovered a unique sequence of minerals that formed from evaporated water in samples from Bennu. These minerals date back to the early solar system and include compounds never ...

This combination of rock, water and organics is one reason OSIRIS-REx chose to sample the organic-rich asteroid Bennu, where water and organic compounds essential to the origin of life could be found.

“Ammonia and formaldehyde likely reacted together to form the amino acids and nucleobases in Bennu when ice melted and salty liquid water flowed through Bennu’s parent body about 4.5 billion years ago ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 Bennu after the mission returned its samples to Earth in 2023.

24, 2023, we got to dive into a tale of rock, ice and water that hints at how life could have formed on Earth. The CI chondrites and asteroid Bennu Advertisement To learn about an asteroid – a ...

The samples are mostly water-rich clay, with sulfide, carbonate and iron oxide minerals. These are the same minerals found in CI chondrites like Revelstoke. The discovery of rare minerals within the ...