NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission successfully returned a generous chunk of the asteroid Bennu to Earth in 2023, and scientists have ...

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...

Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

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

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

Samples of asteroid Bennu contain molecules that suggest the "conditions necessary for life" were widespread across the early ...

Bennu samples brought back by a University of Arizona-led space mission contain the key ingredients of life and signs of the ...

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

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth. CAPE CANAVERAL, ...

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