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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ingredients essential to life, such as water, phosphate, and ammonia. Together, ...

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

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, according to research that provides some of the best evidence to date that such ...

FILE PHOTO: The return capsule containing a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft ...