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Bennu was also an attractive target because it skirts the asteroid belt, which circles the sun between Mars and Jupiter. At its closest, the asteroid is 200 million miles from Earth. While still a ...

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 ...

Are we all aliens? NASA asteroid samples connect Earth to ancient water world Sixty labs around the world are analyzing dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu.

Berkeley Lab is one of more than 40 institutions investigating Bennu's chemical makeup to better understand how our solar system and planets evolved. In a new study published today in the journal ...

There’s certainly nothing living on the asteroid Bennu, an airless, 1,614-ft. rubble pile orbiting the sun about 40.2 million miles from Earth. But that doesn’t mean that Bennu hasn’t all at ...

NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, ... Astronomers create a dazzling, elaborate map of nearby galaxy in thousands of colors ...

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 ...