In May 2021, OSIRIS-REx began its journey back to Earth carrying dust from Bennu - a rubble-pile asteroid older than Earth ...

Scientists studying samples from the asteroid Bennu have found that it contains a remarkable mix of materials — some of which ...

Since its discovery in 1999, the near-Earth asteroid Bennu has captivated scientists as a time capsule from the early solar system — and also as a key to possibly understanding the origins of life.

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Our solar system is filled with rocky debris tumbling around the sun, most of which is the same age, but the asteroid Bennu ...

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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected Bennu’s samples in 2020 during a swift touch-and-go. The material contains ancient stardust, interstellar organic matter, and minerals formed from melted ice ...

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New research on a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu — a small portion of which should arrive in Canada soon — is ...

The ambitious mission to retrieve samples from asteroid Bennu and return them to Earth is paying off. Just as scientists had hoped, the asteroid is revealing details about the early days of our solar ...

Scientists studying samples from the asteroid Bennu have found that it contains a remarkable mix of materials — some of which formed long before the sun even existed. "It's very fascinating to see ...