Sample return capsule from NASA's Osiris-Rex mission at the Department of Defense's Utah Test (Credits: NASA) The presence of water, organic material, and essential elements in Bennu would have ...
Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...
This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the ...
In this video frame, Jason Dworkin holds up a vial that contains part of the sample from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource ...
The sample, which the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected from the asteroid Bennu and returned to Earth in 2023, contains all five nucleobases — the "letters" that make up DNA and RNA — alongside ...
By studying the Bennu samples, they hope to gain more insight into how these ingredients could have evolved. An important reason NASA selected Bennu for the sample return mission is because of its ...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Studies of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA's OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and ...
Searching for organic compounds in the sample material from Bennu ... “This, as well as the isotopes and organic substances in Bennu, all point toward an outer solar system origin for its ...
WASHINGTON – NASA has unveiled discoveries made from examining a sample taken from the asteroid Bennu, which sheds light on how widely the building blocks of life exist in the universe.