An early analysis of a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu suggests that the space rock had an unexpectedly water-rich past — and it may have even splintered off from an ancient ocean world. The ...

A team of US astronomers has carried out one of the deepest analyses to date of a sample from the asteroid Bennu, revealing new details about how water and organic material interacted during the ...

The Bennu asteroid, a space rock not too far from Earth that is rich in carbon, continues to be a trove of information for scientists keen to learn about how life may have begun in our solar system.

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NASA's first asteroid sample is the most pristine sample of its kind. Now, back on Earth, the sample from asteroid Bennu has already delivered surprising findings about the early solar system and ...

Scientists say they are studying a surprise from space. NASA recently released scans of the Bennu Asteroid from the agency's Osiris-Rex Mission. Using older Earth scans and images, researchers ...

Particles returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission contain direct evidence that liquid water once flowed through the asteroid’s parent body, altering its rocks and leaving behind ...

Penn State researchers think a key ingredient for life may have formed in deep freeze, not in a warm asteroid puddle. Scientists at Penn State; led by geoscientist Allison Baczynski and postdoctoral ...

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