Samples from the asteroid Bennu contain the building blocks of life as we know it. Scientists are enthusiastic.
The search for water on the Moon has captivated scientists for decades. Beyond its implications for understanding planetary ...
Scientists found that asteroid Bennu contained a set of salty mineral deposits that formed in an exact sequence when a brine evaporated, leaving clues about the type of water that flowed billions of ...
This photo of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 Polycam images collected on Dec. 2, 2024, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. NASA A ...
Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...
A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals ...
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...
Highlighting the BRLW Meteorite Damast’s bevy of high-end materials is a blade steel element from outer freakin’ space.
The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...
Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...
Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...
New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...