Scientists analyzing samples from asteroid Bennu have found something remarkable ... of the early solar system - an ideal ...

The wealth of complex chemistry, including the chemical components necessary for life, make the Bennu samples a powerful tool for investigating how life arose. “Data from OSIRIS-REx adds major ...

Now, back on Earth, the sample from asteroid Bennu has already delivered surprising ... which the spacecraft imaging team could not see through spectra data on the asteroid. OSIRIS-REx spent ...

Analysis on Bennu samples are still ongoing ... co-lead author on one newly published study. “Data from OSIRIS-REx adds major brushstrokes to a picture of a solar system teeming with the ...

A tiny fraction of the asteroid Bennu sample returned by NASA’s OSIRIS ... "It's starting to give us a different look, a different data set, to try to understand the most primitive material ...

Data collected from meteorites suggested that left-handed chirality was favored in the early solar system, he says. That the samples from Bennu were racemic “throws that theory out,” Dworkin says.

RELAB received their first Bennu samples in November of last year and published their ... They plan to employ innovative methods developed in-house to extract the most data from the tiny amount of ...

Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS ... that interpreting the data from them is challenging.