A sleek metal container carried a sample ... open. The disk-shaped container, roughly the size of a small tire rim, was the culmination of an ambitious mission to collect samples from a distant ...
WASHINGTON – NASA has unveiled discoveries made from examining a sample taken from the asteroid Bennu, which sheds light on how widely the building blocks of life exist in the universe. Launched in ...
The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...
Read full article: A tale of two temperatures: When Houston finally returns to winter ... of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert ...
Two exciting new studies detail the life-supporting contents of a 4.3-ounce sample of the asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-REx ...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino ...
Researcher Jason Dworkin holds a vial of asteroid Bennu sample from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, delivered to Earth in 2023. © NASA/James Tralie Asteroid Bennu not ...
Researchers have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in unprecedented samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu ... by gravity. The sample was collected from ...
Scientists have finally had a close look at the rubble ... image shows needle-like sodium carbonate crystals in the asteroid sample, each less than one/10th of the width of a human hair.
The first compound the team discovered in the Bennu sample was sodium carbonate, which had never been observed before in any other asteroid or meteorite. As it incorporates water into its crystal ...