Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...

The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...

All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

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

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

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...

Scientists have discovered a unique sequence of minerals that formed from evaporated water in samples from Bennu.

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

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

A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, ...

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