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Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...

Scientists have discovered a unique sequence of minerals that formed from evaporated water in samples from Bennu.

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

The building blocks of DNA have been found in samples returned to Earth from an asteroid, suggesting life rained down from ...

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were present ...

The Historical Society hired an art student a century ago to reproduce historic portraits of Indigenous people at the Smithsonian.

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When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

As the National Zoo unveils its latest giant pandas to the public, adoring fans are embracing the newcomers from China.

This photo of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 Polycam images collected on Dec. 2, 2024, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. NASA A ...