The UNI team is led by UNI chemistry and biochemistry professor Joshua Sebree, who started taking students on trips to study the cave in 2019.

With the return of an Asteroid Bennu sample in 2023 as part of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, researchers from the University of Arizona have made significant discoveries toward understanding the ...

Goethe University in Frankfurt is named after the preeminent figure in German literature and most celebrated son of Frankfurt, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who also made a major contribution to the ...

3) In the Schwiete Cosmo Lab: Dr. Sheri Singerling inserts a sample carrier into the transmission electron microscope of the Schwiete Cosmo Lab at Goethe University Frankfurt. Photo: Uwe Dettmar for ...

The building blocks for organic matter have been discovered on the asteroid Bennu, as deatiled in a new study in the journal Nature Astronomy. The research gives new insight into how life ...

Bennu — a rubble pile just one-third of a mile (one-half of a kilometer) across — was originally part of a much larger asteroid that got clobbered by other space rocks.

To avoid contamination, the Bennu samples from NASA were handled under nitrogen. Scientists at Kyushu University in Japan analyzed them with high resolution mass spectrometry — a technique used to ...

Goethe University Frankfurt image: Cosmochemist Professor Frank Brenker shows three grains of a meteorite that the Goethe University team used to test research methods in advance.

Japanese collaborators detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission.

Nilton Rennó, a planetary scientist at the University of Michigan who was not involved with the research on Bennu, said that the findings also opened up more exotic possibilities that scientists ...

The analysis of the Bennu samples is the scientific payoff for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which in 2016 launched a probe to the asteroid on a multiyear journey.The spacecraft jabbed the asteroid ...