Bennu Asteroid Surface Features

Asteroid Bennu Carries Most of Building Blocks of Life

Building blocks of life identified in sample collected from asteroid Bennu

This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the asteroid’s surface. NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona Scientists studying the sample collected in 2023 from asteroid Bennu have announced a dramatic finding: they have identified the key building blocks of life within the sample.

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Asteroid Bennu Is Packed with Life’s Building Blocks, New Studies Confirm

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life were astonishingly widespread in the early solar system

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Building Blocks Of Life Found On Asteroid Bennu

Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids.

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Asteroid Bennu came from a distant, lost world of salty ponds

Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried ...

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Traces of ancient brine discovered on the asteroid Bennu contain minerals crucial to life

A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals ...

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Here’s what NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft sees as it orbits Bennu asteroid

It’s only been about a week since NASA successfully inserted its OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe into orbit ... NASA wants to learn as much about Bennu’s surface as possible, and that means ...

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Asteroid Bennu sample shows more signs of a watery past

Bennu is a roughly 0.3-mile-wide (500 meters) asteroid that orbits in near-Earth ... salty brines found in evaporating lakes on Earth's surface. Phyllosilicate deposits are also found at ...

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