Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The asteroid harbors traces of ancient briny water, salty minerals, and even ...

The discovery of salty mineral evaporites on Ryugu indicates that watery environments may have been widespread in the early ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar system. These findings can now provide information into the potential origins of ...

Analysis of samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu reveal that it has a bizarre chemical make-up and is unusually magnetic ...

Bennu is a roughly 0.3-mile-wide (500 meters) asteroid that orbits in near-Earth ... also found that some of the particles have hummocky shapes resembling cauliflower. Similar rocks found in ...

It came from outer space and its oval shape resembled what we imagine a ... pristine rocks and dust collected from the surface of the asteroid Bennu in 2020 and brought to Earth.

"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our ...

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.

Bennu is a fragile type of asteroid that cannot maintain its shape after falling to Earth. That's why I think it hasn't been included in the research so far.' According to the paper, Glavin and ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...

Donaldjohanson formed about 150 million years ago when a much larger asteroid broke apart. Since then, its orbit and spin have changed significantly. This discovery comes from a study led by the (SwRI ...