Although meteorites on Earth come from asteroids, the combination of exposure to moisture in the atmosphere and to an ...

Earlier remote sensing data collected by OSIRIS-REx during its ... In the coming months, laboratories worldwide will receive parts of the Bennu samples for further research.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A space rock the color of coal and no larger than a pebble you’d shake from a shoe just arrived at the Field Museum, where scientists will spend the next two months probing this extraordinary specimen ...

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.