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

Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...

The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...

Bennu’s parent asteroid, which formed around 4.5 billion years ago, seems to have been home to pockets of liquid water.

Our analyses in the laboratory found that the compositions of these samples lined up with those observations. The samples are mostly water-rich clay, with sulfide, carbonate, and iron oxide minerals.

A few days ago, a major inconvenience appeared in both of their lives. Bruce found discolored water in his toilet, and shortly after, all over the house. He called EPWater immediately, and even ...

Wave ripples on Mars unveil evidence of ancient water and life potential Scientists have found some very encouraging evidence of ripples caused by ancient waves on Mars formed billions of years ...

Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...

Researchers have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in unprecedented samples collected ... four continents, found the salt and minerals left behind as water on Bennu ...

the researchers also found xanthine, hypoxanthine, and nicotinic acid (vitamin B 3). "In previous research, uracil and nicotinic acid were detected in the samples from asteroid Ryugu, but the ...

NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample ...

Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water world ... of the delicate salts found at Bennu — similar ...