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According to Space.com, almost all of the NASA's new findings about the Bennu samples suggested the asteroid had the right ingredients for life as we know it. Also Read ...

By traveling to Bennu, NASA researchers reasoned, a probe could gather pristine material. The OSIRIS-REx probe arrived at the 1,850-foot-wide asteroid in 2020, scooped up rock and dirt, and then ...

Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried over thousands of years and life’s basic ingredients were widespread.

The findings also hint at Bennu’s history as a “water world,” with minerals like calcite, halite, and sylvite indicating the presence of liquid water during its formation 4.5 billion years ago.

2.9K. 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.

The findings suggest Bennu's parent was once home to pockets of liquid water. When these evaporated, they left behind a "briny broth" of salts and minerals.