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 ...

HUMANS have come a step closer to finding aliens after the “building blocks for life” were discovered by scientists on an ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried ...

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