Tantalizing clues in 4-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu samples could reveal particular molecular formations that some ...

Usually, what springs to mind when you think of the world’s most expensive substances are gold, silver, and platinum. However ...

Much of what scientists know about the early solar system comes from meteorites—ancient rocks that travel through space and ...

OSIRIS-REx began its journey back to Earth carrying dust from Bennu - a rubble-pile asteroid older than Earth itself. When the capsule was opened in 2023, scientists were stunned by the chemical ...

So, the OSIRIS‑REx mission ventured to the asteroid Bennu to retrieve an unaltered sample. Retrieving this sample allowed scientists to examine the asteroid’s composition in detail.

mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, asteroid Bennu. This discovery offers key insights into the early solar system and the origins of life. In the ...

The discovery of salty mineral evaporites on Ryugu indicates that watery environments may have been widespread in the early ...