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 ...

Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 Bennu after the mission returned its samples to Earth in 2023.

In January 2025, scientists announced the discovery of organic molecules— the building blocks of life— in samples retrieved from a distant asteroid named Bennu. What can this discovery reveal ...

"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 ...

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.

Scanning electron microscope images of trona found in samples of the asteroid Bennu returned by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. Trona is water-bearing sodium carbonate, also known commonly as soda ash.

“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, ...