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

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

In a nutshell Scientists found pristine salt minerals in asteroid Bennu samples that formed in a specific sequence as ancient ...

Scientists found that asteroid Bennu contained a set of salty mineral deposits that formed in an exact sequence when a brine evaporated, leaving clues about the type of water that flowed billions of ...

Analysis of samples taken from the asteroid Bennu reveal the presence of organic compounds important for life, and that its ...

Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket and spacecraft completed its moon-gravity mission, but the capsule appeared to have a slight ...

That's good news for NASA, which is looking to land astronauts at the south pole on the near, Earth-facing side later this ...

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

"The detection of these key building blocks of life in the Bennu samples supports the theory that asteroids and their fragments seeded the early Earth with the raw ingredients that led to the ...

A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, ...