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 ...

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.

Samples brought back to Earth from asteroid "Bennu" in 2023 have been found to contain crucial building blocks for life—including amino acids and all five DNA and RNA nucleobases.

This figure illustrates key molecules and minerals discovered in samples of near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu, ... “Ammonia and formaldehyde likely reacted together to form the amino acids and ...

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The first study (Nature Astronomy, "Abundant ammonia and nitrogen-rich soluble organic matter in samples from asteroid (101955) Bennu"), by international authors, analysed the samples to reveal ...

NASA made history on Tuesday afternoon as its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully “tagged” the asteroid, 101955 Bennu, and in doing so collected a small sample of regolith from the passing ...

V. E. Hamilton et al. Evidence for widespread hydrated minerals on asteroid (101955) Bennu. Nature Astronomy , 2019 DOI: 10.1038/s41550-019-0722-2 Cite This Page : ...

NASA's spacecraft OSIRIS-REx has finally reached the asteroid 101955 Bennu—which may be on collision course with the Earth—after traveling for just over two years since its launch in September ...

Among them were 14 of the 20 amino acids used to build proteins ... D. S. (2024). Abundant ammonia and nitrogen-rich soluble ...