It passes by Earth every six years about 186,000 miles away, closer than the Moon. Bennu’s parent asteroid contained pockets of liquid water that evaporated, leaving behind brines of various ...

By traveling to Bennu, NASA researchers reasoned, a probe could gather pristine material. The OSIRIS-REx probe arrived at the 1,850-foot-wide asteroid in 2020, scooped up rock and dirt, and then ...

It remains the biggest cosmic haul from beyond the moon. ... Small amounts of Bennu's precious black grains — leftovers from the solar system's formation 4.5 billion years ago — were doled ...

Bennu’s rocks formed 4.5 billion years ago on a larger parent asteroid. ... The Cassini mission measured the same mineral in plumes on Saturn’s moon Enceladus. We also learned that these ...

Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried over thousands of years and life’s basic ingredients were widespread.

The paper also speculates that similar brines may exist today in the interior of Saturn’s moon Enceladus and Mars’s moon Ceres. A mosaic image of asteroid Bennu, composed of 12 PolyCam images ...

Previous predictions had found that Bennu will pass within 75,000 to 330,000 miles of Earth in 2135, possibly taking the asteroid closer to Earth than the moon. Bennu has practically no chance of ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission from a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu.

Scientists believe Bennu is an ancient [ .. relic of the solar system's formation, ... [NARRATOR]: After the moon, NASA and the University of Arizona focused on our neighboring planets.

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission from a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu.

Related article Earth’s recent ‘mini-moon’ may be an actual piece ... and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission from a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu.