Asteroid Bennu Holds Traces of Ancient Water – And Maybe Life’s Origins
Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The ...
The Daily Wildcat8d
The creation of life: Asteroid Bennu samples bring new insight into the age-old question
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar ...
New Scientist16d
The asteroid Bennu is even weirder than we thought
Analysis of samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu reveal that it has a bizarre chemical make-up and is ...
SETI Institute6d
Amino Acids on Bennu: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Uncovers Clues to Life’s Origins
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...
Space.com6d
Next month NASA's Lucy probe will visit an asteroid that's been waiting 150 million years to say hello
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission collected samples from Bennu, and the Hayabusa2 asteroid-sampling spacecraft from the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) nabbed samples from Ryugu. "We can ...
MercoPress17d
Tag: Bennu asteroid
NASA spacecraft touched down on the rugged surface of the Bennu asteroid on Tuesday, grabbing a sample of rocks dating back to the birth of our solar system to bring home. The minivan-sized OSIRIS ...
Business Today7d
‘Asteroid Bennu’s mystery’: Could it hold the missing link to Earth’s first life?
Scientists found traces of briny water and salty minerals, similar to those on Europa and Enceladus, suggesting liquid water once flowed on Bennu. A new study suggests Bennu may have formed beyond ...
Phys.org16d
Remember that asteroid that isn't going to hit Earth? We could send a mission to explore it
Most recently, NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) obtained samples from asteroid 101955 Bennu. In addition to confirming ...
Space.com9d
Asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer threatens to hit Earth, but we can still hit it — for science!
When the universe gives you asteroid lemons, you should make science lemonade. The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of ...