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Project Asteroid: Mapping Bennu
In 2016, NASA embarked on a new and unique mission: sending the Osiris-REx spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid Bennu to study the rocky space object and collect samples to return to ...
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The creation of life: Asteroid Bennu samples bring new insight into the age-old question
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar ...
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Here's what could happen if asteroid Bennu smashes into Earth in 157 years
Samples from Bennu contained all five of the "letters" that make up life's genetic codes — DNA and RNA — alongside minerals rich in carbon, sulfur, phosphorus, fluorine and sodium — the ...
Asteroid Bennu Holds Traces of Ancient Water – And Maybe Life’s Origins
Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The ...
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The asteroid NASA just landed on turns out to be hollow, with a large 'void' at its center. It may be spinning itself to death.
The asteroid Bennu just keeps getting more bizarre ... which can give us better insight into how all of these small asteroids are changing over millions, hundreds of millions, or even billions ...
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Amino Acids on Bennu: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Uncovers Clues to Life’s Origins
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, ...