The Bennu samples from NASA were handled under ... with a ring structure containing carbon and nitrogen—using high-resolution mass spectrometry at Kyushu University. The analysis was carried ...

But if the iron content in Bennu is high and distributed across the ocean, it could trigger unprecedented blooms of algae, in particular the silicate-rich kind called diatoms, for up to three ...

The Bennu samples from NASA were handled under ... with a ring structure containing carbon and nitrogen—using high-resolution mass spectrometry at Kyushu University. The analysis was carried ...

This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 images taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from ... [+] a range of 15 miles. As wide as The Eiffel Tower is tall, the asteroid Bennu is a ...

But samples taken directly out of an asteroid like Bennu, which has been floating around in the cold vacuum of space for billions of years, preserve a pristine ancient snapshot. Water and a high ...

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 to be worth it. A new study published January 29 in ...

WASHINGTON — The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every six years at about 186,000 miles away. It might come even ...

A team of researchers reported in the journal Nature on Wednesday that the asteroid, known as Bennu, contains a wealth of organic molecules, including many crucial building blocks of life.

Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced on Wednesday.