Working like a reverse vacuum cleaner, the sampler head of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft appeared to operate flawlessly collecting material from the surface of asteroid Bennu. NASA awaits confirmation ...

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The wet-dry cycles that come with such terrain are known to foster polymerization, potentially giving rise to the complex structures that became the first single-celled organisms.

Asteroid Bennu wasn’t what NASA expected. Instead of a smooth surface for sample collection, OSIRIS-REx encountered a chaotic, rocky terrain that made its mission incredibly difficult.

According to a January 2025 study published in Nature, the Bennu asteroid samples contain six of the same minerals observed at San Bernardino County’s Searles Lake: calcite, dolomite, gaylussite ...

Un vaisseau spatial de la Nasa, récemment revenu d'une mission sur l'astéroïde Bennu, a été relancé pour étudier son confrère Apophis, du nom du dieu égyptien du Chaos, alors que ce ...

The Bennu sample capsule hurtled toward Earth at more than 27,000 miles-per-hour before touching down safely in the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range. An Information Goldmine ...

Up to 75 percent of Bennu’s regolith will remain in storage so that scientists in the future can “work on the sample with new techniques that we don’t even know exist yet,” Dr. Connolly said.

Bennu’s surface was a lot rockier and rougher than OSIRIS-REx was designed to land on, forcing scientists to essentially retrain the autonomous spacecraft to land on the surface without harming ...

Bennu probably also contains about 5-10% by weight of carbon. This is where a lot of the interest lies. As we know, life on our planet is based on organic chemistry.