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 ...
A new study reveals that these missing pieces may not have been absent from the start but were instead lost during violent ...
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 ...
Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried ...
Scientists have finally had a close look at the rubble collected by a spacecraft from the asteroid Bennu. Here's what they ...
Samples from the asteroid Bennu, which landed in Utah's west desert in September 2023, could suggest rocks carrying an ...
Researchers offer their most comprehensive assessment to date of the history of water and organic compounds in a sample ...
It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it ...
In a triumph for NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission, new findings suggest that tiny bits of rock retrieved from the ...
Scientists have found all five nucleobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...
Fragments of this meteorite , discovered by beaver trappers ... They form when water evaporates. A microscope's view of ...