The building blocks for organic matter have been discovered on the asteroid Bennu, as deatiled in a new study in the journal ...

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

The discovery supports the theory that asteroids seeded life on Earth.

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

Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried ...

Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ingredients essential to life, such as water, phosphate and ammonia. Together, ...

Bennu’s parent asteroid, which formed around 4.5 billion years ago, seems to have been home to pockets of liquid water.

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

A team of scientists discovered that the near-Earth asteroid, known as Bennu, contains a wealth of minerals and organic molecules, including many that are building blocks of life. But what has the 4.5 ...