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

NASA is set to collaborate with SpaceX to return astronauts from the ISS amidst plans for further cosmic exploration. Samples ...

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 ...

Scientists discovered numerous organic compounds in samples from the asteroid Bennu, including key amino acids, DNA, and RNA.

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 ...

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

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 ...

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...

Scientists have discovered ancient water, exotic salts, and the building blocks of life in asteroid Bennu, supporting the theory that asteroids may have seeded life on Earth ...

Samples from asteroid Bennu were first brought to Earth in 2023. Now, NASA has published its key findings revealing that the ...