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

Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids.

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In a recent study, scientists at the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) at Pusan National University in South Korea ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Analysis of pristine samples from asteroid Bennu has provided insights into the early solar system, revealing the presence of various salts, including sodium ...

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.

The history of water in the solar system is knowable only because of the careful curation of the asteroid samples. The samples were removed from the spacecraft’s return assembly in a clean glove ...

Tracking old and defunct spacecraft across the solar system is becoming a problem, scientists say. The discovery of a new asteroid this month has turned out to be anything but. In fact ...