A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...
Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...
Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...
This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the ...
The building blocks for organic matter have been discovered on the asteroid Bennu, as deatiled in a new study in the journal ...
Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced ...
The discovery supports the theory that asteroids seeded life on Earth.
Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...
NASA has unveiled discoveries made from examining samples taken from the asteroid Bennu, which shed light on how widely the ...
It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it ...