Analysis of samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu reveal that it has a bizarre chemical make-up and is ...

OSIRIS-REx isn't done yet. After swinging past Earth to drop off the Bennu Sample, it is now headed out to intercept the orbit of asteroid Apophis. In doing so, OSIRIS-REx was officially renamed ...

“So far we have not seen any evidence for a preferred chirality,” Glavin says. This goes for both the Bennu sample and a previous sample from the asteroid 162173 Ryugu, collected by Japan’s Hayabusa2 ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

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 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 ...

However, identifying them in a pristine sample collected in space ... we see on this aqueously altered asteroid," said McCoy. For all the answers the Bennu sample has provided, several questions ...

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.

NASA stated that studies of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu that were taken by the OSIRIS ... but finding them in a "pristine sample" in space suggests that objects formed far from the sun ...

(THE CONVERSATION) A bright fireball streaked across the sky above mountains, glaciers and spruce forest near the town of Revelstoke in British Columbia, Canada, on the evening of March 31, 1965.