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NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission reached asteroid 101955 Bennu. Two years later, the spacecraft snagged a sample of its surface, ...

An asteroid the size of One World Trade Center has a very small chance of crashing into Earth in the year 2182. But what ...

A big question in the origin of life on Earth is why it is based solely on "left-handed" amino acids. Studies on asteroid ...

Bennu asteroid sample reveals amino acids and nucleobases essential for Water-related minerals in the sample point to ancient chemical processe Equal left- and right-handed amino acids raise questions ...

A hot water extract from an asteroid Bennu sample (left, “Bennu tea”) was found to contain a surprising abundance of ammoni.(NASA) In a major twist to the study of life beyond Earth ...

Asteroid Bennu, once thought a lifeless relic, has surprised scientists with briny traces of life's raw ingredients. Samples collected by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission reveal not only water marks from ...

A modern case in point: The asteroid Bennu contains all the materials needed for life. The OSIRIS-REx mission launched in 2016. Its main aim was to study Bennu and retrieve samples to bring back ...

Does it suggest that Bennu, or a Bennu sibling, could have brought these building blocks of life or brought life to earth? How does it impact our big picture? DANNY GLAVIN: I mean, absolutely. I think ...

where an impact later blasted it to bits. Some time in the last 65 million years, a little of its debris drifted back together into a floating rubble pile — which we know today as Bennu.

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 ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has delivered groundbreaking insights into the origins of life, thanks to pristine samples collected from the asteroid Bennu. The findings, published in Nature ...