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

Bennu is a potentially hazardous asteroid that has a 1-in-2,700 chance ... The researchers behind the first study received slices of the Bennu sample, which they examined under a scanning electron ...

A portion of the asteroid Bennu sample delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, set into a microscope slide at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Credit: Molly ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino ...

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

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission uncovered a cosmic connection between asteroid Bennu and Earth’s Searles Lake. Both contain minerals formed by evaporating salty water, hinting that Bennu’s parent body once ...

views a portion of the asteroid Bennu sample in the center's astrobiology lab under microscope in November 2023, shortly after it arrived from the curation team at the agency's Johnson Space ...

“We are still at the very early stages of the analysis of the Bennu samples,” Glavin says. His team is currently examining a much larger sample from the asteroid that weighs around six grams ...

views a portion of the asteroid Bennu sample in the center’s astrobiology lab under a microscope in November 2023, shortly after it arrived from the curation team at the agency’s Johnson Space ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has provided groundbreaking insights into the early solar system and the potential origins of life.