And when you’ve got a scanning electron microscope, everything must look ... the electron micrographs show the chip formation process in amazing detail. The aluminum oxide layer on the top ...

A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, ...

The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...

Bennu contains minerals and thousands of organic molecules, including the chemical components that make up DNA.

Scientists found that asteroid Bennu contained a set of salty mineral deposits that formed in an exact sequence when a brine evaporated, leaving clues about the type of water that flowed billions of ...

"What we've learned from it is amazing," said Prof Sara Russell ... Natural History Museum/Tobias Salge Scanning electron microscopes revealed the minerals in the Bennu sample The new research ...

A scoop of dust from an ancient time capsule hurtling through space has forced a rethink of how inert matter became all that ...

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"It's been an absolute joy to be involved in this amazing mission, and to collaborate with ... analyzed these specimens using the museum's state-of-the-art scanning electron microscope, funded in part ...

Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source and Molecular Foundry provided powerful tools to study asteroid samples returned by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. Researchers found that asteroid Bennu contained a ...