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Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life ...

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NASA has unveiled a series of new discoveries that make the possibility of alien life elsewhere in the universe more ...

The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists' biggest questions about the formation of the early solar ...

Samples retrieved from asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission in September 2023 have yielded a surprising treasure trove ...

Sugars essential for biology have been discovered in a gum-like substance in fragments from the Bennu space-rock.

As per the official reports, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission first collected samples from asteroid Bennu in 2020.

Scientists led by Yoshihiro Furukawa of Tohoku University in Japan found sugars essential for biology on Earth in the Bennu ...

For the first time, tryptophan, which is an essential amino acid, has been identified in extraterrestrial material.

These images mark an early milestone in the mission, confirming that OSIRIS-APEX is healthy and on course for its 2029 ...