Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried ...
Scientists have discovered a unique sequence of minerals that formed from evaporated water in samples from Bennu.
Scientists stress more testing is needed to better understand the Bennu samples, as well as more asteroid and comet sample returns. China plans to launch an asteroid sample return mission this ...
The first compound the team discovered in the Bennu sample was sodium carbonate ... Without the controlled return by a spacecraft mission and very careful curation in nitrogen to isolate them ...