In 2018, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission reached asteroid 101955 Bennu. Two years later, the spacecraft snagged a sample of its ...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission returned 121.6 grams of sample from asteroid (101955) Bennu in September 2023—the largest sample ever returned to Earth. Now, an international team of OSIRIS-REx sample ...
The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were all five of the basic building block for life — Guanine, Cytosine, Adenine, ...
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 ...
In a recent study, scientists at the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) at Pusan National University in South Korea simulated the aftermath of a Bennu-type, medium-sized asteroid collision with ...
The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...
The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth from outer space.
In 2018, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission reached asteroid 101955 Bennu. Two years later, the spacecraft snagged a sample of its surface, which has since been returned to Earth. Now, astronomers are ...