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In May 2021, OSIRIS-REx began its journey back to Earth carrying dust from Bennu - a rubble-pile asteroid older than Earth ...
Scientists studying samples from the asteroid Bennu have found that it contains a remarkable mix of materials — some of which ...
Tom Zega, a University of Arizona scientist who's worked on samples brought back from the asteroid Bennu, tells The Show more ...
New research on a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu — a small portion of which should arrive in Canada soon — is ...
Our solar system is filled with rocky debris tumbling around the sun, most of which is the same age, but the asteroid Bennu ...
The ambitious mission to retrieve samples from asteroid Bennu and return them to Earth is paying off. Just as scientists had ...
The near-Earth asteroid Bennu contains stardust that is older than our solar system, as well as organic materials and ices from interstellar space, three fresh studies of the asteroid's sample ...
Three publications by the UA-led OSIRIS-REx sample analysis team reveal the asteroid's composition and history in unprecedented detail. (Nanowerk News) Asteroid Bennu — the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx ...
Smithsonian researchers analyzed fragments of the near-Earth asteroid and discovered water-rich clays that hint at a distant origin Jack Tamisiea A view of the outside of the OSIRIS-REx sample ...
“The most likely trigger was an impact on a larger asteroid parent of Ryugu, which fractured the rock and melted buried ice, ...