The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...
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 ...
Bennu’s highly unlikely impact with Earth—which could happen in 157 years—could cause a global winter and drought, modeling ...
The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life ...
Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids.
The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were ...
Scientists from NASA and other institutions reported the findings of the first in-depth analysis of the minerals and ...
Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...
The study of asteroid samples is a highly lucrative area of research and one of the best ways to determine how the Solar ...
Scientists have discovered numerous organic compounds in samples from the asteroid Bennu, including key amino acids and the ...
The discovery is a capstone achievement for NASA, which went to great lengths to secure and deliver asteroid samples from ...