This mineral-rich asteroid might have carried the seeds of life. Planetary scientists have discovered organic matter ...

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

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

A sample collected from asteroid Bennu shows that our solar system was teeming with the potential for life.The Latest Tech ...

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

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

Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...

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

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

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

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

Samples of asteroid Bennu contain molecules that suggest the "conditions necessary for life" were widespread across the early ...