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Abundant ammonia and nitrogen-rich soluble organic matter in samples from asteroid (101955) Bennu. Nature Astronomy , 2025; DOI: 10.1038/s41550-024-02472-9 Cite This Page : ...

Pristine samples of asteroid Bennu have revealed something entirely unexpected — not only does the asteroid contain the ...

2.9K. Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 Bennu after the mission returned its samples to Earth in 2023.

The 120 g of material came from the near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu, which OSIRIS-REx visited in 2020. The findings “bolster the hypothesis that asteroids like Bennu could have delivered the raw ...

In addition to the 14 biological amino acids, the samples from Bennu also contained 19 more non-biological amino acids, as well as the five nucleobases that make up RNA and DNA.

In 2018, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission reached asteroid 101955 Bennu. Two years later, the spacecraft snagged a sample of its surface, which has since been returned to Earth. Now, astronomers are ...

Nearly two years ago, NASA made history when its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft briefly “tagged” 101955 Bennu to collect a regolith sample from the surface of the asteroid.

Japanese collaborators detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission.

This graphic shows asteroid Bennu's closest potential pass by Earth, in Sept. 2182, with just a 0.037 per cent chance of impact. The exact distance from Earth on that date apparently depends on ...

Jan 29, 2025: Samples from asteroid Bennu include life's building blocks (Nanowerk News) Rock and dust samples brought back from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu contain organic matter, including amino ...