Analysis of samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu reveal that it has a bizarre chemical make-up and is ...

NASA 's OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing the presence of organic compounds essential for life. After the Bennu samples arrived, researchers began studying them ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 Bennu after the mission returned its samples to Earth in 2023.

NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces) of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert in 2023 before swooping off ...

(THE CONVERSATION) A bright fireball streaked across the sky above mountains, glaciers and spruce forest near the town of Revelstoke in British Columbia, Canada, on the evening of March 31, 1965.

NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces) of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert in 2023 before swooping off after ...

This figure illustrates key molecules and minerals discovered in samples of near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu, which were delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission in September 2023. Bennu is a ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, launched in 2016, successfully collected 120 grams of samples from Bennu in 2020 and delivered them to Earth in September 2023. Scientists have since been analyzing ...

GIGAZINE A paper published in January 2025 in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Nature Astronomy analyzed the organic molecules in samples from Bennu. Bennu is believed to be an object that has ...