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NASA scientists want to solve a mystery: Why did life "turn left?"
When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...
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A NASA spacecraft scooped rubble from an asteroid. Here's what was inside
An international team of scientists has released some of their discoveries about the samples collected by the NASA spacecraft Osiris-REx from the near-Earth carbon-rich asteroid Bennu in 2020 ...
A Billion-Year-Old Secret Unlocked in Asteroid Bennu’s Dust
Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing asteroid Bennu samples, some of the most pristine ever ...
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Bennu isn't likely to hit Earth - but if it did, here's what would happen
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission reached asteroid 101955 Bennu. Two years later, the spacecraft snagged a sample of its surface, ...
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Dust from asteroid Bennu shows: Building blocks of life and possible habitats were widespread in our solar system
The quantity and type corresponded to the material from the asteroid Bennu. FRANKFURT. It took two years for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a ...
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NASA brought back samples from asteroid Bennu. They revealed clues about the possible origins of life.
NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces) of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert in 2023 before swooping off after ...
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NASA’s Asteroid Bennu Could Cause A Global Catastrophe, Scientists Say
This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 images taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from ... [+] a range of 15 miles. As wide as The Eiffel Tower is tall, the asteroid Bennu is a ...
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NASA offers best look yet at surface of space rock Bennu
If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe has already had quite an eventful year. After ...
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Building blocks of life identified in sample collected from asteroid Bennu
This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the asteroid’s surface. NASA/Goddard ...
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NASA’s asteroid probe will be headed home soon with precious cargo on board
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe has been orbiting the space rock known as Bennu for many months now. The spacecraft successfully gathered samples from the massive asteroid and will return that ...
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The Asteroid Bennu Has All the Building Blocks of Life
The OSIRIS-REx mission launched in 2016. Its main aim was to study Bennu and retrieve samples to bring back to Earth. The spacecraft reached Bennu in 2018 after traveling 320 million kilometers ...