we had never seen this set of minerals in a meteorite. Before returning the samples, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft spent over two years making observations around Bennu. From that two years of work ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth ... If that wasn’t enough, another team—led by meteorite experts and cosmic mineralogists at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural ...

Dust and other debris would rise into the atmosphere on Bennu striking Earth, blocking out the Sun and cooling the planet to ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-metre-wide asteroid 320 million kilometres from Earth.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission successfully returned a generous ... A similar asteroid that arrived on Earth as a meteorite would have lost many compounds due to heat and exposure to the atmosphere.

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ingredients essential to life, such as water, phosphate, and ammonia. Together, ...

In September 2023, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft dropped off a special delivery that ... "We're seeing minerals in Bennu samples that we have never seen before in a meteorite or any extraterrestrial ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino acids, nucleobases, and minerals known as evaporites—all elements of life’s ...

we had never seen this set of minerals in a meteorite. Before returning the samples, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft spent over two years making observations around Bennu. From that two years of work ...