There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...

Bennu, it seems, was born of a salty planetoid rife with the ingredients for life. Bennu as it exists today is essentially a ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid ...

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

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

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

Bennu samples brought back by a University of Arizona-led space mission contain the key ingredients of life and signs of the ...

Pristine samples of the asteroid Bennu transported to Earth contain the "basic building blocks" for life, shedding new light on the perennial question of how life began on our planet.

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life in the solar system.

Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...

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