Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced ...

NASA's findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...

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

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

In a triumph for NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission, new findings suggest that tiny bits of rock retrieved from the ...

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

In samples NASA brought back from the asteroid Bennu, scientists have discovered of organic compounds, including key building ...

NASA has unveiled discoveries made from examining samples taken from the asteroid Bennu, which shed light on how widely the ...

All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...