It remains the biggest cosmic haul from beyond the moon. The two previous asteroid sample missions, by Japan, yielded considerably less material. Small amounts of Bennu's precious black grains ...

Nearly 60 years later, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu, similar to ... mineral in plumes on Saturn’s moon Enceladus.

Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world ... to those thought to exist on dwarf planet Ceres and Saturn’s moon Enceladus, and finding them in the cold outer suburbs shows that ...

Researchers have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in unprecedented samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu ... as Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus — which ...

Did Pluto ‘kiss-and-capture’ its largest moon? McCoy et al. performed detailed chemical analyses and microscopy studies of the Bennu samples to search for evidence of the water-loss process.

The researchers think brine similar to that found on Bennu could also exist on other bodies in the solar system, such as the dwarf planet Ceres and Saturn's icy moon Enceladus. —NASA is locked out of ...

Researcher Jason Dworkin holds a vial of asteroid Bennu sample from NASA's OSIRIS ... including Saturn’s moon Enceladus and the dwarf planet Ceres. Enceladus is an exciting venue for ...

Nearly 60 years later, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu, similar to ... mineral in plumes on Saturn’s moon Enceladus.

Nearly 60 years later, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu, similar to ... mineral in plumes on Saturn’s moon Enceladus.