On this week's special episode of Quirks & Quarks with Bob McDonald, we find experts to answer your burning science questions.

Bennu’s extremely weak gravity and treacherous ... device ensnared some of it to bring home to Earth. These incoming particles passed through a barrier, kind of like a mylar doggie door ...

The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists ... a plethora of the chemical building blocks for life, including particles… Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox! We'll also keep you ...

The impact of a Bennu-sized object — a medium-sized asteroid ... to strong warming caused by the solar absorption of dust particles, the researchers said. An asteroid collision of this ...

Bennu also harbored telltale signs of saltwater ... As the capsule dropped back to Earth, the air was filtered to remove water vapor and dust particles. Upon landing in Utah, NASA immediately placed ...

If Bennu hit Earth, Dr Dai and his co-authors estimate that 100 to 400 million tonnes of dust would linger above Earth for around two years. Those dust particles would act like a vast planet-wide ...

If Bennu were to strike the ocean ... reduced sunlight and decreased precipitation, Dai said. Dust particles lofted high into the air would absorb and scatter sunlight, preventing it from reaching ...

When we analysed the interior of Bennu’s dust particles, we were surprised to find tiny crystals of the salt minerals known as halite and sylvite. This was a breakthrough discovery. Halite is ...

If a fifth force exists, its corresponding particles could play the role of dark matter. The Bennu data allowed scientists to search for a fifth force associated with particles that are very light ...

Related: Bennu sample has rocks unlike any meteorite ever found The team also found that some of the particles have hummocky shapes resembling cauliflower. Similar rocks found in southern Italy ...