Scientists have confirmed the presence of glucose in dust collected from asteroid Bennu, marking the first detection of this six-carbon sugar in material originating beyond Earth. The finding emerged ...
The "JWST spectroscopy of (142) Polana: Connection to NEAs (101955) Bennu and (162173) Ryugu" paper is published in the Planetary Science Journal. "Very early in the formation of the solar system, we ...
In September 2016 NASA will launch a very special mission. The target: near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu. The primary objective of the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and ...
Bennu is a “rubble-pile” asteroid shaped like a spinning top that orbits the Sun every roughly 1.2 years and passes near Earth every six years or so. A rubble-pile asteroid isn’t one solid chunk of ...
On December 3, 2018, NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) successfully rendezvoused with the near-earth asteroid (NEA) 101955 ...
Smithsonian researchers analyzed fragments of the near-Earth asteroid and discovered water-rich clays that hint at a distant origin Jack Tamisiea A view of the outside of the OSIRIS-REx sample ...
With the return of an Asteroid Bennu sample in 2023 as part of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, researchers from the University of Arizona have made significant discoveries toward understanding the origins ...
SwRI scientists reviewed spectral data of sample material taken from near-Earth asteroids Ryugu and Bennu (pictured above) and compared them with spectral data of main belt asteroid Polana from the ...
When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission brought back samples from asteroid 101955 Bennu, researchers found that they contained amino acids, the building blocks necessary for life. Amino acids are the molecules ...
Drouet D'Aubigny, C. Y. Dworkin, J. P. Emery, J. P. Farnocchia, D. Glavin, D. P. Golish, D. R. Hartzell, C. M. Jacobson, R. A. Jawin, Erica R. Jenniskens, P. Kidd, J ...
Drouet D'Aubigny, C. Y. Edmundson, K. L. Fornasier, S. Hamilton, V. E. Hasselmann, P. H. Hergenrother, C. W. Howell, E. S. Jawin, Erica R. Kaplan, H. H. Le Corre, L ...