This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the ...

Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids.

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

Studies of asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft have revealed molecules that, on our planet, are key to life.

Researchers offer their most comprehensive assessment to date of the history of water and organic compounds in a sample ...

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

Discover the fascinating findings from asteroid Bennu: pristine salt minerals reveal the presence of liquid water in the ...

Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five ...

Two science teams pored over samples from the B-type asteroid Bennu, finding chemicals linked to the beginnings of life and ...

Samples from the asteroid Bennu contain the building blocks of life as we know it. Scientists are enthusiastic.

Samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the asteroid Bennu had organic molecules and minerals and possibly salty water and other life ingredients.

Analyzing a sample from an asteroid named Bennu reveals the chemicals necessary to form DNA and RNA.