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

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

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

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

Joint Press Release by Hokkaido University, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Kyushu University ...

Kevin Righter started at University of Rochester last year, but before that he worked on NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to collect ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission successfully returned a generous chunk of the asteroid Bennu to Earth in 2023, and scientists have ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission from a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu.

In 2016, NASA embarked on a new and unique mission: sending the Osiris-REx spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid Bennu to study the rocky space object and collect samples to return to ...

Precise curation was necessary to discover that the Bennu asteroid sample contains building blocks of life on Earth.Long ...

A space capsule from NASA’s Osiris-REx mission to the asteroid Bennu landed in Utah on Sunday. The sample of rocks and dust—the largest ever collected from an asteroid—could help scientists ...

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