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

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

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The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were ...

Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...

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

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

The asteroid Bennu contains all the materials needed for life. This backs up an old hypothesis that the building blocks of ...

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

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino acids and nucleobases found in DNA and RNA. The presence of ammonia and ...