Scientists poring over a sample brought back from the asteroid Bennu have detected amino acids and complex mineral compounds, ...

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 organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino ...

Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...

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

Why Trust Us? Two exciting new studies detail the life-supporting contents of a 4.3-ounce sample of the asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023 ...

The sample, which the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected from the asteroid Bennu and returned to Earth ... uracil — which combine with ribose and phosphate to form DNA and RNA, the ladder-like ...

A portion of the asteroid Bennu sample delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, set into a microscope slide at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Credit: Molly ...

The Bennu team is continuing to look at unstudied material from the asteroid sample to see if even more complex compounds are lurking inside. Some amino acids could have possibly been combined ...

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with the Earth in September 2182, new research has discovered. The IBS Center for Climate Physics ...

After examining just 0.06% of a 120-gram material sample from the surface of asteroid Bennu — which returned to Earth in Utah's west desert in September 2023 — a group of scientists has ...