Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...

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

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

Scientists recently discovered that San Bernardino County's Searles Lake contains minerals found in outer space.

Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar system through some of the most well-preserved asteroid samples ever collected, potentially ...

The instruments on the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft made observations of reflected ... That same evaporation process also formed the ancient lake beds we’ve seen these minerals in on Earth. Bennu’s parent ...

Searles Lake has long been shaped by shifting water levels, volcanic minerals, and evaporite formation. In 2024, satellites ...

the ethereal Trona Pinnacles rising from the lake’s basin have remarkable similarities to the Bennu asteroid samples, researchers found. “The pinnacles look incredible and are made from ...

Scientists have discovered the essential building blocks to life on a sample from a distant asteroid. The sample ... making them resemble those left in the crusts of dried lake beds on Earth — except ...

Scientists found that asteroid Bennu contained a set of salty mineral deposits that formed in an exact sequence when a brine evaporated, leaving clues about the type of water that flowed billions of ...