The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...

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

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino ...

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

The asteroid Bennu contains all the materials needed for life. This backs up an old hypothesis that the building blocks of ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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