Latest Space Breaking News: Asteroid Bennu: A time capsule of materials bearing witness to its origin and transformation over billions of years

Link: https://phys.org/news/2025-08-asteroid-bennu-capsule-materials-witness.html

Summary: Asteroid Bennu—the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample return mission, led by the University of Arizona—is a mixture of materials from throughout, and even beyond, our solar system. Over the past few billion years, its unique and varied contents have been transformed by interactions with water and the harsh space environment.