The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing asteroid Bennu samples, some of the most pristine ever ...

It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it flew past Earth, which was then recovered in the desert of the U.S ...

Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

The asteroid Bennu contains all the materials needed for life. This backs up an old hypothesis that the building blocks of life came to Earth on an asteroid.

WASHINGTON — A pinch of salt has helped unlock mysteries of our solar system’s earliest days. Scientists analyzing pristine samples from asteroid Bennu have discovered an extraordinary ...

The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...

They indicate that water may have once been present on Bennu’s parent body, and offer new insights into the chemistry of the early Solar System. Pristine remnants of rocks from deep time ...

Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced on Wednesday.

Such sublimation might have happened, for example, when Bennu migrated from the outer Solar System to its current orbit close to that of Earth. Alternatively, the liquid pore water could have ...

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, according to research that provides some of the best evidence to date that such ...