NASA’s Asteroid Bennu Sample Reveals Mix of Life’s Ingredients
Jan 29, 2025 · In research papers published Wednesday in the journals Nature and Nature Astronomy, scientists from NASA and other institutions shared results of the first in-depth …
Ingredients of Life Discovered on Near-Earth Asteroid Bennu
Feb 5, 2025 · In 2016, NASA launched a probe to collect samples from the asteroid 101955 Bennu in order to shed light on the solar system’s early environment. Now, scientists have …
Scientists find life’s ‘building blocks’ in asteroid Bennu samples
Jan 31, 2025 · A prelude to life Bennu, like other asteroids, provides a window into the early solar system.
NASA Uncovers Life’s Building Blocks in Asteroid Bennu’s Pristine Sample
Feb 2, 2025 · NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino acids and nucleobases found in DNA and …
OSIRIS-REx, NASA's sample return mission to asteroid Bennu
OSIRIS-REx collected a sample of the asteroid Bennu in 2020 and returned it to Earth in 2023. In 2025, scientists announced the sample contained many of the building blocks of life.
Sample return experts at the Space Sciences Laboratory uncover …
Feb 19, 2025 · Scientists at the UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL), along with colleagues at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and several other …
Bennu samples reveal a strange new material no one expected
When scientists cracked open the first grains from asteroid Bennu, they expected a time capsule of rock and dust. What they found instead was a cocktail of sugars, phosphates, evaporite …
Scientists find building blocks of life in OSIRIS-REx samples, …
Jan 31, 2025 · Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 Bennu after the mission returned its …
Life's building blocks found by NASA in asteroid Bennu dust sample ...
Feb 5, 2025 · Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered remarkable insights into the origins of Earth’s water, the organic molecules that may have seeded life here and elsewhere, and the …
'Potentially hazardous' asteroid Bennu contains dust older than …
Aug 25, 2025 · The near-Earth asteroid Bennu contains stardust that is older than the solar system and clues about its violent history, three new studies of the asteroid's sample materials …