Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 ... amino acids like the ones discovered in the Bennu sample into ...

This figure illustrates key molecules and minerals discovered in samples of near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu ... while the lower left depicts amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. The Bennu ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

Secured inside that delivery was over 120 grams of material collected directly from 101955 Bennu ... even more profound. The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential ...

Samples brought back to Earth from asteroid "Bennu" in 2023 have been found to contain crucial building blocks for life—including amino acids and all five DNA and RNA nucleobases. The findings ...

The researchers boiled rocks and dust from Bennu in water and acid to extract organic compounds, then used mass spectrometry to identify the molecules, including 14 of the 20 amino acids that life ...

The findings, published in Nature Astronomy and other journals, reveal that Bennu contains the essential building blocks of life, including amino acids and nucleobases—key components of proteins ...