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

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

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

The pristine nature of the Bennu samples is crucial. Daniel Glavin of NASA noted, “The clues we’re finding are incredibly ...

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

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

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

Scientists from NASA and other institutions who have been analyzing the Bennu asteroid sample that returned to Earth last ...

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

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...

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

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