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Life on Earth relies on molecular building blocks to make DNA and proteins. Scientists have long wondered how prevalent these precursors were at the birth of our solar system. A sample of dust and ...

Canada received a small study sample because it had contributed the OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter (OLA) instrument to the mission that enabled the compilation of a 3D map of Bennu, which proved helpful ...

Bennu — a rubble pile just one-third of a mile (one-half of a kilometer) across — was originally part of a much larger asteroid that got clobbered by other space rocks.

Marcus teamed up with Scott Sandford from NASA Ames Research Center and Zack Gainsforth from the UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory to study the Bennu sample using scanning transmission X-ray ...

Bennu is both an old and a new asteroid. Like all of the millions of other objects in the asteroid belt, it formed 4.5 billion years ago when our solar system was just accreting.

NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert in 2023 before swooping off after ...

Bennu, a carbon-rich asteroid that orbits as close as 300,000 kilometres to Earth, was part of an ancestral asteroid that formed in the early solar system about 4.5 billion years ago.

Regolith samples from asteroid Bennu contain many of the essential building blocks of life. These molecules include 14 of the 20 protein-building amino acids found in Earth life, all five of the ...