NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft mission has delivered a sample of the asteroid Bennu to Earth and it has been found to contain ...

NASA researchers have been studying rock and dust brought back to Earth from the asteroid, Bennu. Those particles revealed ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino acids and nucleobases found in DNA and RNA. The presence of ammonia and ...

HUMANS have come a step closer to finding aliens after the “building blocks for life” were discovered by scientists on an ...

In samples NASA brought back from the asteroid Bennu, scientists have discovered of organic compounds, including key building ...

A capsule carrying about a half cup of dust and rocks from an ancient asteroid named Bennu landed in the Utah desert in 2023. The samples were collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which sent a ...

Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.