The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, launched in 2016, arrived at Bennu in late 2018 and started orbiting the asteroid, which was thought to be a remnant of the solar system’s formation. OSIRIS-REx found ...

They do, however, imply that the conditions required for life’s formation were common throughout the early solar system. NASA ...

“NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission already is rewriting the textbook on what we understand about the beginnings of our solar system,” Nicky Fox, associate administrator of the Science Mission ...

which could provide further clues about the spread of organic molecules in the solar system. Further analysis of Bennu’s sample is ongoing, and more discoveries are expected. Meanwhile, OSIRIS-REx has ...