A small rock sample collected from asteroid Bennu contains traces of tryptophan, a complex amino acid rarely found in space ...

Bennu itself is a fascinating “jigsaw piece” of the early solar system. This third-of-a-mile-wide space rock is likely a ...

Jose Aponte, an astrochemist in the Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and co-author of ...

An essential amino acid that is mistakenly believed to cause drowsiness after eating turkey has been found in an asteroid for the first time, giving scientists clues to the origin of life on Earth.

A bright fireball streaked across the sky above mountains, glaciers and spruce forest near the town of Revelstoke in British Columbia, Canada, on the evening of March 31, 1965. Fragments of this ...

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WASHINGTON — The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every six years at about 186,000 miles away. It might come even closer ...

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 ...

Three publications by the UA-led OSIRIS-REx sample analysis team reveal the asteroid's composition and history in unprecedented detail. (Nanowerk News) Asteroid Bennu — the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx ...

Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried over thousands of years and life’s basic ingredients were widespread.

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...