Researchers say the asteroid Bennu has the building blocks for life on it. The samples collected and returned to Earth were ...

The sample analysis detected 14 out of the 20 amino acids used by life on Earth to create proteins, as well as all five nucleobases essential ...

New insights from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission have unveiled intriguing clues about the potential origins of life on Earth. The mission, which launched in Septembe ...

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

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

Scientists found 11 minerals in Bennu samples, including calcite, halite, and sylvite, that form when water with dissolved ...

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

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, ...

Pristine samples of the asteroid Bennu transported to Earth contain the "basic building blocks" for life, shedding new light ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe dropped off samples of asteroid Bennu in 2023, and now those samples have been analyzed by researchers for their contents.