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The modest container was holding samples collected from Bennu, a diamond-shaped asteroid billions of miles away, and had been traveling through the dark corridors of space for years. After it ...

NASA's Osiris Rex spacecraft had grabbed parts of the ancient Bennu asteroid and uncovered a rich set of minerals and compounds which could show signs of life. The spacecraft collected samples ...

Why Trust Us? 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 ...

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, according to research that provides some of the best evidence to date that ...

Studies on asteroid Bennu's chemical building blocks deepens the mystery. Credit: Christoph Burgstedt / iStock / Getty Images illustration When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid ...

Nearly 60 years later, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu, similar to the one that rained rocks over Revelstoke. Our research team has ...

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 Bennu, among researchers around the globe.