NASA’s Bennu Samples Reveal a Surprising Origin Story
Asteroid Bennu is a small, carbon-rich near-Earth asteroid that preserves some of the most primitive material left from…
Asteroid Bennu may have formed much closer to the Sun than scientists thought
Isotope measurements from asteroid Bennu closely match those of asteroid Ryugu and rare CI carbonaceous chondrites, suggesting all…
In 2010, NASA’s asteroid probe touched Bennu for seconds, sank almost 20 inches into loose rock and blasted roughly six tons of debris away |
This mosaic of Bennu was assembled from observations gathered by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft that orbited the asteroid for…
All five canonical nucleobases used in DNA and RNA detected in Ryugu samples
All five canonical nucleobases, adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, and uracil, have been identified in pristine samples returned from…