The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life in the solar system.

NASA’s Bennu asteroid sample provides fresh insights into the potential for life beyond Earth, revealing key organic compounds and minerals.

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

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

Studies of asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft have revealed molecules that, on our planet, are key to life.

The study of asteroid samples is a highly lucrative area of research and one of the best ways to determine how the Solar ...

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

Scientists found 11 minerals in Bennu samples, including calcite, halite, and sylvite, that form when water with dissolved ...

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

The discovery is a capstone achievement for NASA, which went to great lengths to secure and deliver asteroid samples from asteroid Bennu in 2020.

Analyzing a sample from an asteroid named Bennu reveals the chemicals necessary to form DNA and RNA.

NASA scientists discovered a plethora of precursors to life on the asteroid Bennu, demonstrating the importance of Earthbound ...