That sample is now helping scientists determine quite a few things about Bennu and its fellow asteroids. So far, we've learned that it is a "rubble pile"-type asteroid rather than a solid body, and ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino acids, nucleobases, and minerals known as evaporites—all elements of life’s ...

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 ...

Why did life turn left? Now, we’ve been studying meteorites for decades, and we found that some meteorites, especially ones that had compositions similar to Bennu, had excesses of the left-handed form ...

Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced on Wednesday.

Small amounts of Bennu’s precious black grains — leftovers ... Combining the ingredients of life with an environment of sodium-rich salt water, or brines, “that’s really the pathway ...

Science correspondent Allan Blackman joins Kathryn to talk about what samples of the asteroid Bennu reveal about the building ...

Space agencies around the world are tasked with locating, studying and analysing the trajectories of cosmic objects that pose a danger to life on Earth. Bennu, one of the largest a ...

“Asteroids provide a time capsule into our home planet’s history, and Bennu’s samples are pivotal in our understanding of what ingredients in our solar system existed before life started on ...

A team of researchers reported in the journal Nature on Wednesday that the asteroid, known as Bennu, contains a wealth of organic molecules, including many crucial building blocks of life.

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with Earth, a study has ...

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 ...