The sampling mechanism from the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft with material from asteroid Bennu inside NASA/Erika Blumenfeld & Joseph Aebers
An asteroid sample brought back to Earth may have once been part of a small, ocean-covered world with conditions favourable for life to emerge. That鈥檚 according to the team behind NASA鈥檚 OSIRIS-REx mission, which brought back a sample of the asteroid Bennu in September 2023.
鈥淢y working hypothesis is that this was an ancient ocean world,鈥 says at the University of Arizona, the…
