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

Rock and dust samples brought back from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu contain organic matter, including amino acids and all ...

Two science teams pored over samples from the B-type asteroid Bennu, finding chemicals linked to the beginnings of life and ...

Scientists found 11 minerals in Bennu samples, including calcite, halite, and sylvite, that form when water with dissolved ...

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

Samples contain all five nucleobases of DNA and RNA, supporting theory that asteroids may have seeded Earth with life's ...

Samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the asteroid Bennu had organic molecules and minerals and possibly salty water and other life ingredients.

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

NASA scientists discovered a plethora of precursors to life on the asteroid Bennu, demonstrating the importance of Earthbound ...

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

The study of asteroid samples is a highly lucrative area of research and one of the best ways to determine how the Solar ...

Scientists have discovered numerous organic compounds in samples from the asteroid Bennu, including key amino acids and the ...