Precise curation was necessary to discover that the Bennu asteroid sample contains building blocks of life on Earth.Long ...

Studies of asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft have revealed molecules that, on our planet, are key to life.

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

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

When exposed to formaldehyde, which was also detected, ammonia can form amino acids, the building blocks of proteins.

Bennu was attractive as a sample return target for a number of reasons ... the samples were transferred to NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston where they are stored and studied in ...

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

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-metre-wide asteroid 320 ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...