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

Bennu was the target for NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sampling mission, which touched down briefly on the space rock in October 2020 to gather over 4 ounces of material, and then brought that sample ...

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 mission successfully returned a generous chunk of the asteroid Bennu to Earth in 2023, and scientists have been analyzing it ever since. International scientific teams have ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

The sample, which the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected from the asteroid Bennu and returned to Earth in 2023, contains all five nucleobases — the "letters" that make up DNA and RNA — alongside ...

Many biological molecules are chiral, meaning they exist in two forms that are mirror images of each other, like left and ...

NASA stated that studies of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu that were taken by the OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security–Regolith Explorer ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has spent the majority of its life studying the near ...

New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking ...