NASA "We're seeing minerals in Bennu samples that we have never seen before in a meteorite or any extraterrestrial sample," said Tim McCoy of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History ...

A team at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural ... An important reason NASA selected Bennu for the sample return mission is because of its relatively close proximity, making the endeavor ...

The sample, which the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected from the asteroid Bennu and returned to Earth ... curator of meteorites at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, said in ...

A NASA mission collected the sample and ... at The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and co-lead author of a new paper in the journal "Nature," about the Bennu samples.

"We're seeing minerals in Bennu samples that we have never seen before in a meteorite or any extraterrestrial sample," Tim McCoy, curator of meteorites at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural ...

“That’s the kind of environment that could have been essential to the steps that lead from elements to life,” said the Smithsonian ... asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to ...

“That’s the kind of environment that could have been essential to the steps that lead from elements to life,” said the Smithsonian Institution ... pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, ...

"Looking for samples is like looking for a needle in a haystack in a field of haystacks, and from orbit you’re just seeing a field," said McCoy, curator of meteorites at the Smithsonian ... than 70% ...

The mission sealed the Bennu sample in a protective capsule in space ... the curator of meteorites at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and co-lead of one of the studies ...