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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing asteroid Bennu samples, some of the most pristine ever ...

Researcher Jason Dworkin holds a vial of asteroid Bennu sample ... Scanning electron microscope image of trona, or soda ash, in the Bennu sample. Image: Rob Wardell, Tim Gooding and Tim McCoy ...

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 ...

Its contents: 122 grams of dust and rock from asteroid Bennu. The probe had collected this sample from the surface ... using the transmission electron microscope of the Schwiete Cosmochemistry ...

Scientists have finally had a close look at the rubble collected by a spacecraft from the asteroid Bennu. Here's what they ...