Samples from the asteroid Bennu contain the building blocks of life as we know it. Scientists are enthusiastic.
This photo of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 Polycam images collected on Dec. 2, 2024, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. NASA A ...
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...
Scientists have finally had a close look at the rubble collected by a spacecraft from the asteroid Bennu. Here's what they ...
The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...
Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...
Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...
New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...
All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...
Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...