NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...

The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were ...

Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...

The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.

Bennu may have once provided a compatible environment. Another study in Nature detected a cornucopia of minerals akin to brine on Earth—potentially a sign of water in the past. These salt-crusted ...

"We're finding this story where together the water, the organic materials and all of these bioessential elements could have been delivered on asteroids like Bennu in the early solar system to ...

They indicate that water may have once been present on Bennu's parent body, and offer new insights into the chemistry of the early solar system. Pristine remnants of rocks from deep time Asteroids ...

Samples of matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building blocks of life to Earth, scientists report in a pair of new studies published ...

Bennu has long intrigued researchers due to its near-Earth orbit and carbon-rich composition. Scientists theorized that the ...