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

Secured inside that delivery was over 120 grams of material collected directly from 101955 Bennu ... "We're seeing minerals in Bennu samples that we have never seen before in a meteorite or any ...

Secured inside that delivery was over 120 grams of material collected directly from 101955 Bennu ... seeing minerals in Bennu samples that we have never seen before in a meteorite or any ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 Bennu after ... of organics the meteorite might hold.

These brines likely also exist on other asteroids, and McCoy and his colleagues plan to reexamine meteorite specimens in the museum ... soluble organic matter in samples from asteroid (101955) Bennu” ...

said that the reason why the analysis results of Bennu were different from previous meteorite research and prior speculations was, 'Bennu is a fragile type of asteroid that cannot maintain its ...

In 2018, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission reached asteroid 101955 Bennu. Two years later, the spacecraft snagged a sample of its surface, which has since been returned to Earth. Now, astronomers are ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned 121.6 grams of sample from asteroid (101955) Bennu in September 2023—the largest sample ever returned to Earth. Now, an international team of OSIRIS-REx ...