Asteroid Bennu apatite minerals carry rare earth concentrations up to 900 times the cosmic baseline, a synchrotron study ...

A dark, rubble-strewn asteroid roughly a third of a mile wide is among the most closely studied objects in the solar system, ...

Smithsonian researchers analyzed fragments of the near-Earth asteroid and discovered water-rich clays that hint at a distant origin Jack Tamisiea A view of the outside of the OSIRIS-REx sample ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Since its discovery in 1999, the near-Earth asteroid Bennu has captivated scientists as a time capsule from the early solar system ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pristine samples from asteroid Bennu reveal amino acids and DNA building blocks, pointing to ...

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 ...

Asteroid Bennu—the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample return mission, led by the University of Arizona—is a mixture of materials from throughout, and even beyond, our solar system. Over the past few ...

Celebrations erupted in the NASA control room as the capsule containing samples from the asteroid Bennu touched down in the Utah desert Sunday after a 4 billion mile journey that lasted seven years.

Technicians carrying samples of asteroid Bennu in 2023 when it was headed for a newly constructed clean room at Johnson Space Center in Houston. Image via NASA. Samples of Asteroid Bennu were returned ...

Researchers discovered sugars essential for biology, including glucose, in the asteroid material for the first time. A strange, pliable substance nicknamed "space gum" was also found, which could have ...

Learn how rock and dust samples are shedding light on the origins of Asteroid Bennu and the history of the early Solar System. Little pieces of the 4.5 billion-year-old Asteroid Bennu are saying a ...