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

Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...

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 discovery is a capstone achievement for NASA, which went to great lengths to secure and deliver asteroid samples from asteroid Bennu in 2020.

In this video frame, Jason Dworkin holds up a vial that contains part of the sample from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by ...

In other words, Bennu's samples provide further evidence that life's building blocks formed early in the solar system and ...

Greg Polley, Smithsonian Some of the minerals identified in the Bennu sample have never been found ... the potential for life,” with the big open question now being why life developed here ...

For months, NASA was unable to open the sample container from the Osiris-Rex asteroid probe. It was found to contain over 51 ...

The Bennu team is continuing to look at unstudied material from the asteroid sample to see if even more ... said that the findings also opened up more exotic possibilities that scientists should ...