A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals allowed the elemental ingredients of life to intermingle.

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

The sample analysis detected 14 out of the 20 amino acids used by life on Earth to create proteins, as well as all five nucleobases essential ...

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

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

In a groundbreaking revelation, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has uncovered organic compounds and complex carbon molecules in samples collected from asteroid Bennu, marking a major milestone in the search ...

Nasa said that the findings do not show evidence for life itself, but they do suggest the conditions necessary for the emergence of life were widespread across the early solar system.

Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...

"The detection of these key building blocks of life in the Bennu samples supports the theory that asteroids and their fragments seeded the early Earth with the raw ingredients that led to the ...

Study indicates that Bennu’s parent asteroid developed or accumulated material from a reservoir in the outer solar system ...

Scientists from NASA and other institutions who have been analyzing the Bennu asteroid sample that returned to Earth last ...

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