This mineral-rich asteroid might have carried the seeds of life. Planetary scientists have discovered organic matter ...

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

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

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

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

The pristine nature of the Bennu samples is crucial. Daniel Glavin of NASA noted, “The clues we’re finding are incredibly ...

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

Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced ...

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

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

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

NASA has unveiled discoveries made from examining samples taken from the asteroid Bennu, which shed light on how widely the ...