When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it ...

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

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five ...

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

Samples from the asteroid Bennu, which landed in Utah's west desert in September 2023, could suggest rocks carrying an ...

This photo of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 Polycam images collected on Dec. 2, 2024, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. NASA A ...

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

NASA has unveiled discoveries made from examining samples taken from the asteroid Bennu, which shed light on how widely the ...

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