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

Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

look at images of asteroid Bennu samples taken by a scanning electron microscope. Credit: James Di Loreto / Smithsonian A team at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History discovered ...

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 ...