The 120 g of material came from the near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu, which OSIRIS-REx visited in 2020. The findings “bolster the hypothesis that asteroids like Bennu could have delivered the raw ...

It is not exactly clear why 'only left-handed amino acids exist in life,' but an investigation of fragments of the near-Earth asteroid Bennu has revealed surprising results about left-handed amino ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 Bennu after the mission returned its samples to Earth in 2023. While ...

Back to Article List Bennu isn’t likely to hit Earth — but if it did, here’s what would happen Although classified as a potentially hazardous asteroid, Bennu probably won't hit Earth.

This figure illustrates key molecules and minerals discovered in samples of near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu, which were delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission in September 2023. Bennu is a ...

The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth from outer space.

The first study (Nature Astronomy, "Abundant ammonia and nitrogen-rich soluble organic matter in samples from asteroid (101955) Bennu"), by international authors, analysed the samples to reveal ...

Officially designated 101955 Bennu, the space rock was selected as a destination of NASA's first ever asteroid sample collection mission, the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource ...

Samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the asteroid Bennu had organic molecules and minerals and possibly salty water and other life ingredients.

Imagine arriving back at Earth after traveling through space for seven years, tirelessly transmitting images and hauling back rock samples from the diamond-shaped asteroid 101955 Bennu.

Samples brought back to Earth from asteroid "Bennu" in 2023 have been found to contain crucial building blocks for life—including amino acids and all five DNA and RNA nucleobases.