Asteroid samples collected from Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission have revealed fascinating details about the early solar system and the history of water in space. These samples, the largest ever returned to Earth from an asteroid, provide scientists with valuable information about the conditions and processes that prevailed billions of years ago. The Importance of … Read more
Scientists analyze samples NASA brought back from an asteroid got a surprising detection that may be the room rock was once part of a bygone era Ocean world. What the team found was water-soluble magnesium-sodium phosphate in mottled rocks – a mineral no one expected, as it didn’t show up in the data the spacecraft … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. CNN — Early analysis of a sample taken from the asteroid Bennu suggests the space rock may have had an unexpectedly watery past, possibly even splitting off from an ancient ocean planet. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. CNN — An early analysis of a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu suggests the space rock may have had an unexpected watery past. The rock may even have split off from an ancient ocean … Read more
On September 24, 2023, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft dropped a capsule on Earth containing pristine carbonaceous regolith collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. These samples were obtained after the probe completed an impressive seven-year tour of the solar system and back. Since these pieces of space rock arrived (about 120 grams of sample, to be precise), … Read more