The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...

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

A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, ...

Scientists have discovered a unique sequence of minerals that formed from evaporated water in samples from Bennu.

Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...

The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...

All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...

The discovery is a capstone achievement for NASA, which went to great lengths to secure and deliver asteroid samples from ...

With the OSIRIS-REx space probe, the NASA space agency succeeded in collecting some material from the surface of asteroid ...

It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it ...

FRANKFURT. It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it flew past ...

The sample, which the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected from ... which they examined under a scanning electron microscope. This enabled the team to study features on the sample's surface with ...