Kevin Righter started at University of Rochester last year, but before that he worked on NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to collect ...

Precise curation was necessary to discover that the Bennu asteroid sample contains building blocks of life on Earth.Long ...

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Joint Press Release by Hokkaido University, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Kyushu University, Tohoku University, and ...

A poster depicting all the compounds discovered in the OSIRIS-REx sample. Credit: NASA Reference: “Abundant ammonia and nitrogen-rich soluble organic matter in samples from asteroid (101955) Bennu” by ...

At midday, the undergraduate poster session buzzed with expositions ... Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

Although the chances of impact are slim, Bennu is still one of the most potentially hazardous known asteroids in our solar ...

The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every ...

Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing asteroid Bennu samples, some of the most pristine ever ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...