Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building ...

Asteroids, small airless bodies within the inner solar system, are theorized to have contributed water and chemical building blocks of life to Earth billions of years ago. Although meteorites on Earth ...

Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced ...

Analyzing a sample from an asteroid named Bennu reveals the chemicals necessary to form DNA and RNA.

Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.

Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...

Japanese collaborators detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid ...

Credit: NASA The Bennu samples from NASA were handled under ... with a ring structure containing carbon and nitrogen—using high-resolution mass spectrometry at Kyushu University.

Japanese collaborators detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx ...