NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...

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 ...

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 returned samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing insights into life's ingredients on Earth, paralleling those found in the Revelstoke meteorite's analysis.

Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...

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

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

Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...

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

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