Bennu, it seems, was born of a salty planetoid rife with the ingredients for life. Bennu as it exists today is essentially a ...

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

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

Studies of asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft have revealed molecules that, on our planet, are key to life.

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

Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission successfully returned samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing 14 of the 20 essential amino acids for life on Earth, along wit ...

Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids.

The latest discovery, unveiled by the NASA on January 29, came as a bit of a surprise and posed many exciting questions such ...

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

Pristine samples from asteroid Bennu contain “basic building blocks” for life, offering new insights. The samples suggest ...

The building blocks for organic matter have been discovered on the asteroid Bennu, as deatiled in a new study in the journal ...