101955 Bennu (provisional designation 1999 RQ 36) is a carbonaceous asteroid in the Apollo group discovered by the LINEAR Project on 11 September 1999. ... guanine, and uracil) that …

2 days ago · More information: Daniel Glavin, Abundant ammonia and nitrogen-rich soluble organic matter in samples from asteroid (101955) Bennu, Nature Astronomy (2025). DOI: …

18 hours ago · The asteroid 101955 Bennu appears in this mosaic of images captured by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. ... as well as the five nucleobases that make up RNA and DNA. ...

all ve nucleobases found in DNA and RNA), along with ~10,000 N-bearing chemical species. All chiral non-protein amino acids were racemic or nearly ... (101955) Bennu and (162173) Ryugu …

2 days ago · Walsh, K. J. et al. Numerical simulations suggest asteroids (101955) Bennu and (162173) Ryugu are likely second or later generation rubble piles. Nat. Commun. 15 , 5653 …

2 days ago · NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission returned 121.6 grams of sample from asteroid (101955) Bennu in September 2023--the largest sample ever returned to Earth. Now, an …

2 days ago · Abundant ammonia and nitrogen-rich soluble organic matter in samples from asteroid (101955) Bennu. Nature Astronomy , 2025; DOI: 10.1038/s41550-024-02472-9 Cite …

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

2 days ago · Abundant ammonia and nitrogen-rich soluble organic matter in samples from asteroid (101955) Bennu. Nature Astronomy. Published online January 29, 2025. doi: …

2 days ago · To make a protein, our cells copy a gene from DNA to a similar molecule called RNA, which uses three of DNA’s nucleobases plus one of its own, called uracil. Bennu …