Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...

Scientists have discovered a unique sequence of minerals that formed from evaporated water in samples from Bennu.

Tim McCoy, right, and Cari Corrigan, meteorite researchers at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, look at images of asteroid Bennu samples taken by a scanning electron microscope.

Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...

The sample, which the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected from the asteroid ... which they examined under a scanning electron microscope. This enabled the team to study features on the sample's surface ...

Nearly 60 years later, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample ... These included CT scanning, electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction, each of which allowed us to look at the ...

The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...

It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it flew past Earth, which was then recovered in the desert of the U.S. state of ...

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

It took two years for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx space probe to return ... barely visible grains of Bennu using the transmission electron microscope of the Schwiete Cosmochemistry Laboratory, set up ...

The sample, which the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected from ... which they examined under a scanning electron microscope. This enabled the team to study features on the sample's surface with ...

With the OSIRIS-REx space probe, the NASA space agency succeeded in collecting some material from the surface of asteroid Bennu, which arrived on ...