With Bennu’s sample now offering a wealth of data and future missions like OSIRIS-APEX set to explore new frontiers, the impact of this mission will be felt for years to come, as researchers ...

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

These data have let astronomers predict Bennu ... In September 2023, the spacecraft will fly by Earth, drop a capsule full of Bennu samples into the Utah desert, and continue its journey through ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...