Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing asteroid Bennu samples, some of the most pristine ever ...

The asteroid Bennu ... over every pebble and grain of dust, studying this remnant of the distant past and trying to discern the chemistry of the early solar system. At the Natural History Museum ...

The brine contains ... Ryugu during the Hayabusa2 mission. Bennu is actually a broken-off chunk of a larger asteroid that is about 4.5 billion years old—roughly the same age as our solar system.

29 (UPI) --Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the ... to create new lifeforms on Earth and in its solar system. "NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission already is ...

Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision.

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains ... asteroid around 60 miles wide formed in the outer reaches of the Solar ...

Two exciting new studies detail the life-supporting contents of a 4.3-ounce sample of the asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies ...

When the spacecraft completed its long journey home more than a year ago, NASA split up a 120-gram sample, collected in October 2020 from the asteroid ... bodies in our solar system,” said ...