NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar ...
Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The ...
Analysis of samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu reveal that it has a bizarre chemical make-up and is unusually magnetic ...
Asteroid Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old space rock, may hold clues to Earth's origins. With traces of water, amino acids, and ...
"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our ...
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, ...
NASA has proven that successful extraction of materials from asteroids is possible; this was most recently seen with the promising results of its OSIRIS-REx mission, which retrieved samples containing ...
New simulations reveal that the climate, atmospheric chemistry and even global photosynthesis would be dramatically disrupted ...
"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University Belfast and a member of one of Nasa's sky surveys that searches and tracks ...
Smithsonian and NASA scientists set out to collect an asteroid sample that may hold clues to the origins of life in our solar system.