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 ...
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Analyzing material from a distant space rock
When NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission brought back samples from asteroid 101955 Bennu, researchers found that they contained amino ...
Dust from asteroid Bennu is revealing a surprising origin story for life’s building blocks. New research suggests some amino acids formed in frozen ice exposed to radiation, not warm liquid water as ...
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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A mosaic of Bennu created from observations made by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, which was in ...
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Asteroid Bennu sample finds life’s building blocks formed in space ice
Penn State researchers think a key ingredient for life may have formed in deep freeze, not in a warm asteroid puddle. A space sample with a new twist Scientists at Penn State; led by geoscientist ...
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 ...
Jawin, Erica R., Ballouz, Ronald, Ryan, Andrew, Kaplan, Hannah, Al Asad, Manar M., Molaro, Jamie, Rozitis, Benjamin, Keller, Lindsay, and McCoy, Timothy J. 2023 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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