The potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu probably won't hit Earth. But this study shows the damage a space rock of its size ...

On 20 October, 2020, a robot spacecraft took a sample of surface dust from asteroid Bennu. On 4 September, 2023, as it passed ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) traveled 3.6 ...

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

In a recent study, scientists at the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) at Pusan National University in South Korea ...

Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...

The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were all five of the basic building block for life — Guanine, Cytosine, Adenine, ...

Scientists from NASA and other institutions reported the findings of the first in-depth analysis of the minerals and chemicals in the Bennu samples carried to Earth by OSIRIS-REx in 2023, in studies ...

“Abundant ammonia and nitrogen-rich soluble organic matter in samples from asteroid (101955) Bennu” by Daniel P. Glavin, Jason P. Dworkin, Conel M. O’D. Alexander, José C. Aponte, Allison A. Baczynski ...

Artist concept of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft as it readies itself to touch the surface of asteroid Bennu. This mission is an early precursor to possible asteroid mining. Credits: NASA/Goddard ...

Asteroids provide a time capsule into our home planet’s history, and Bennu’s samples are pivotal in our understanding of what ingredients in our solar system existed before life started on Earth,” ...