Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, according to research that provides some of the best evidence to date that such ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

The potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu probably won't hit Earth. But this study shows the damage a space rock of its size ...

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

of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert in 2023 before swooping off after another space rock. It remains the biggest cosmic haul ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission from a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu.

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

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, ...

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 of them on an asteroid millions of miles away. The asteroid in question, ...

After the Bennu samples arrived, researchers began studying them, diving into a tale of rock, ice, and water that hints at how life could have formed on Earth. Since the Bennu samples returned to ...

The probe gathered dust, soil, and rocks from the asteroid and returned them to Earth in 2023. Research on these samples has been ongoing since then. Here are the key findings. Bennu is an ...

The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth from outer space.