But the sample can also provide insights into Bennu, which has a chance ... the surface of the asteroid during the collection event. The before and after photos showed some intriguing differences ...

Researchers believe this 4.6-billion-year-old piece of rock could reveal compounds present at the beginning of the solar ...

OSIRIS-REx spent several years mapping the asteroid before the touch-and-go maneuver to collect the sample. After a seven-year journey to asteroid Bennu and back, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft ...

Two exciting new studies detail the life-supporting contents of a 4.3-ounce sample of the asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-REx ...

With the return of an Asteroid Bennu sample in 2023 as part of ... What was missing in the previous meteorite collection was knowledge of what happens after the circulation of aqueous fluid.

When the spacecraft completed its long journey home more than a year ago, NASA split up a 120-gram sample ... in the Bennu cache and minerals crucial to life, including some never before seen ...

Now, back on Earth, the sample from asteroid Bennu has already delivered surprising findings about the early solar system and where the asteroid might have come from. After a seven-year journey ...

In a triumph for NASA’s first asteroid sample ... molecules after they form.” In a second study, published today in Nature Astronomy, McCoy and other scientists examining Bennu’s components ...

NASA tasked the OSIRIS-REx team that retrieved material from Bennu to examine it for clues to the nature and origins of life. Tantalizing evidence in the Bennu sample suggests that the asteroid ...

Some of the sample’s microscopic grains reveal that Bennu’s odyssey began before our sun’s first ... team has about Bennu’s life. Not long after our sun emerged, worlds began to coalesce ...

The sample was collected from Bennu in October 2020 by a NASA mission called OSIRIS-REx, or Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security-Regolith Explorer. It marked the ...

Two exciting new studies detail the life-supporting contents of a 4.3-ounce sample ... Bennu’s samples are pivotal in our understanding of what ingredients in our solar system existed before ...