Space around the Sun contains far more than planets. Scattered through it are smaller bodies made of rock, metal, ice and dust. These objects move on .

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Key detail in Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl outfit raises questions — ...

Dust from asteroid Bennu is revealing a surprising origin story for life’s building blocks. New research suggests some amino acids formed in frozen ice exposed to radiation, not warm liquid water as ...

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Scientists have finally discovered how amino acids essential for life formed on the 4.6-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu.

Amino acids, the building blocks necessary for life, were previously found in samples of 4.6-billion-year-old rocks from an asteroid called Bennu, delivered to Earth in 2023 by NASA's OSIRIS-REx ...