NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...

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

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission collected samples from asteroid Bennu. Scientists have found amino acids, ammonia and other molecules essential to life on Earth.

29 (UPI) --Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that ... conducted a spacewalk outside of the International Space Center on Thursday for maintenance.

a senior scientist for sample return at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and a co-author of the two papers. In 2016, NASA launched OSIRIS-REx, a robotic probe, to Bennu in order to gather ...

Bennu — a rubble pile just one-third of a mile (one-half of a kilometer) across — was originally part of a much larger asteroid that got clobbered by other space rocks. The latest results ...

Samples of matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building blocks of life to Earth, scientists report in a pair of new studies published ...

Scientists from NASA and other institutions who have been analyzing the Bennu asteroid sample that returned to Earth last September found molecules, including amino acids, which are essential ...

Some scientists theorize that Earth-bound life was created because an outer space object like Bennu collided with our world. Indeed, scientists say there is a remote possibility of Bennu impacting ...

New insights from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission have unveiled intriguing clues about the potential origins of life on Earth. The mission, which launched in Septembe ...