Asteroid Bennu Samples Reveal Jupiter’s Role in Early Solar System
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned 121.6 grams of material from asteroid Bennu in 2023, offering scientists a forensic archive of the early solar system. In a study published in Science Advances, researchers at ETH Zurich analyzed iron, titanium, and chromium isotopes in the grains and concluded that Bennu’s parent body formed near the water-ice line, inside … Read more