The building blocks for organic matter have been discovered on the asteroid Bennu, as deatiled in a new study in the journal ...
This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the ...
Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...
Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced ...
Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...
It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it ...
A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...
Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...
Analysis of samples taken from the asteroid Bennu reveal the presence of organic compounds important for life, and that its ...
Asteroids, small airless bodies within the inner solar system, are theorized to have contributed water and chemical building ...
Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...