Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...

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

Searles Lake has long been shaped by shifting water levels, volcanic minerals, and evaporite formation. In 2024, satellites ...

the ethereal Trona Pinnacles rising from the lake’s basin have remarkable similarities to the Bennu asteroid samples, researchers found. “The pinnacles look incredible and are made from ...

Scientists have discovered the essential building blocks to life on a sample from a distant asteroid ... resemble those left in the crusts of dried lake beds on Earth — except they date to ...

The instruments on the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft made observations of reflected ... That same evaporation process also formed the ancient lake beds we’ve seen these minerals in on Earth. Bennu’s parent ...

SALT LAKE CITY — After examining just 0.06% of a 120-gram material sample from the surface of asteroid Bennu — which ... said. His team made what it called "Bennu tea" for their experiments.

Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

Researchers have made exciting ... salt lakes. The scientists have found a total of eleven minerals that probably originate from a brine-like environment on Bennu's parent asteroid.

Asteroid Bennu is thought to be made of rubble fragments from a 4.5-billion ... brines – a bit like salt deposits forming in the salt lakes that we have in Australia and around the world.

The instruments on the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft made observations ... also formed the ancient lake beds we’ve seen these minerals in on Earth. Bennu’s parent asteroid likely broke apart 1 to ...