All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...

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

A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, ...

It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but ...

A scoop of dust from an ancient time capsule hurtling through space has forced a rethink of how inert matter became all that ...

When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...

Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building ...

Scientists from NASA and other institutions reported the findings of the first in-depth analysis of the minerals and ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino acids and nucleobases found in DNA and RNA. The presence of ammonia and ...