In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-metre-wide asteroid 320 ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx brought back to Earth 121 grams of material from asteroid Bennu. This is the largest sample ever collected ...

The Bennu discovery helps to illuminate how, early in the Solar System’s history, asteroids and other planetary building blocks were not just “lumps of stone and ice, but active ‘living’ objects”, ...

Bennu is a carbon-rich asteroid whose components have remained relatively unchanged since the solar system's early days. NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex mission captured samples from the surface of the asteroid and ...

New research overseen by a Rowan University professor may help support that theory.

The Hayabusa2 mission has been pivotal in advancing our knowledge of carbonaceous asteroids, specifically the asteroid Ryugu. The samples collected from Ryugu are primarily composed of materials ...

“The asteroid’s composition is consistent with that of carbonaceous asteroids that formed outside of Jupiter’s orbit during the formation of the solar system,” said Dr Mario Fischer ...

The asteroid was identified as a C-type, or carbonaceous, asteroid. This new research refutes earlier claims that a comet caused the extinction event. Instead, it confirms the asteroid's impact as ...

See a pallasite meteorite on display in Hintze Hall ... The most basic types, known as carbonaceous chondrites, are rich in water, sulphur and organic material. They are thought to have brought ...

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