Asteroids, small airless bodies within the inner solar system, are theorized to have contributed water and chemical building ...

The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were ...

Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.

Rock and dust samples brought back from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu contain organic matter, including amino acids and all ...

The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...

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