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

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 ...

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

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

The sample analysis detected 14 out of the 20 amino acids used by life on Earth to create proteins, as well as all five nucleobases essential ...

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

Researchers say the asteroid Bennu has the building blocks for life on it. The samples collected and returned to Earth were ...

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

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

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

Scientists have discovered traces of organic compounds in asteroid samples brought back by NASA, a finding that could suggest ...

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