A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...

Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...

Asteroids, small airless bodies within the inner solar system, are theorized to have contributed water and chemical building ...

In other words, Bennu's samples provide further evidence that life's building blocks formed early in the solar system and ...

Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five ...

NASA’s Bennu asteroid sample provides fresh insights into the potential for life beyond Earth, revealing key organic compounds and minerals.

Pristine samples from asteroid Bennu contain “basic building blocks” for life, offering new insights. The samples suggest ...

Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...