Bennu samples brought back by a University of Arizona-led space mission contain the key ingredients of life and signs of the ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

The asteroid in question, named Bennu, was the focus of a very dreamy NASA mission called OSIRIS-REx that launched in 2016.

It was all the way back in September 2023 when the return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample-return mission landed at the ...

SEE ALSO: A meteorite fell at their doorstep. The doorbell camera caught it all. A crew wheels the OSIRIS-Rex asteroid sample return capsule into a cleanroom on Sept. 24, 2023. Credit: NASA ...

The samples were taken from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu by the NASA mission OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. attempt to retrieve and analyze samples from an asteroid. The findings do not show evidence ...

Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...

Credit: NASA/Erika Blumenfeld & Joseph Aebersold It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but the wait is proving ...

The asteroid in question, named Bennu, was the focus of a very dreamy NASA mission called OSIRIS-REx that launched in 2016. The first goal of OSIRIS-REx was to blast a spacecraft toward the ...

OSIRIS-REx launched in September 2016 and traveled 200 million miles (320 million kilometers) to reach Bennu. Once there, the spacecraft orbited the asteroid for nearly two years as flight ...