NASA researchers have been studying rock and dust brought back to Earth from the asteroid, Bennu. Those particles revealed ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 ...

The asteroid Bennu contains all the materials needed for life. This backs up an old hypothesis that the building blocks of ...

Analysis of samples taken from the asteroid Bennu reveal the presence of organic compounds important for life, and that its ...

Scientists have discovered a unique sequence of minerals that formed from evaporated water in samples from Bennu.

The scientists also found tiny crystals of rare salt minerals called halite and sylvite within Bennu's dust particles. These ...

Bennu is a roughly 0.3-mile-wide (500 meters) asteroid that orbits in near-Earth space. Scientists suspect it's a chunk of a larger asteroid that broke off due to a collision farther out.

Precise curation was necessary to discover that the Bennu asteroid sample contains building blocks of life on Earth.Long ...

Bennu - the asteroid could hold clues as to ... The craft is believed to have collected some 400g (14oz) of fragments, but particles were escaping due to the wedged door. Closing the compartment ...