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

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

creating a “feedstock” of molecules available for the eventual appearance of life on Earth, scientists said. The Bennu samples suggest that the raw materials of life have probably been present ...

The asteroid Bennu, visited by a NASA robotic probe five years ago, contained many of the basic building blocks for life as ...

Studies on asteroid Bennu's chemical building blocks deepens ... and right-handed versions of all these molecules are equally available in nonliving chemical mixes. Practically speaking, if ...

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Bennu is a relatively small asteroid that passes ... "So this says that this material is abundant in the early Solar System and is available for building planets, for building life on our planet ...

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Kevin Righter started at University of Rochester last year, but before that he worked on NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to collect ...