Scientists studying Bennu samples have discovered that its chemistry is far from uniform. Organic compounds and minerals cluster into three distinct types of regions, each shaped differently by past ...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has captured imagery of all of Asteroid Bennu over a four-hour-and-11-minute period. See it rotate in the time-lapse video. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center White ...
Learn how nanoscale scans of Bennu reveal a diverse chemical landscape shaped by ancient water, and reshaping our understanding of early Solar System processes. Asteroid Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, ...
A team of US astronomers has carried out one of the deepest analyses to date of a sample from the asteroid Bennu, revealing new details about how water and organic material interacted during the ...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is closing in on the asteroid Bennu after more than two years of flight and is sending home some incredible travel photographs. This week, “super resolution” images of the ...