NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...

Analysis of samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu reveal that it has a bizarre chemical make-up and is ...

Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The ...

when the craft briefly descended to scoop up a sample of its regolith. That sample is now helping scientists determine quite a few things about Bennu and its fellow asteroids. So far, we've ...

This set of stereoscopic images provides a 3D view of the large, 170-foot (52-meter) boulder that juts from asteroid Bennu's southern hemisphere and the rocky slopes that surround it. The stereo ...

The needles of hydrated sodium carbonate (in purple in this false-colored image ... and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft began orbiting Bennu on New Years Eve 2018, collected ...

In this video frame, Jason Dworkin holds up a vial that contains part of the sample from asteroid Bennu delivered to ... and Security – Regolith Explorer) mission in 2023. Dworkin is the mission ...

Samples of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu revealed minerals and molecules ... Resource Identification and Security-Regolith Explorer) spacecraft has "revealed molecules that, on our planet ...