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

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

Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five ...

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

YR4, which was recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years, may have caused ...

Samples contain all five nucleobases of DNA and RNA, supporting theory that asteroids may have seeded Earth with life's ...

Researchers offer their most comprehensive assessment to date of the history of water and organic compounds in a sample ...

Additionally, researchers uncovered salts in the Bennu cache and minerals crucial to life, including some never before seen in asteroid samples ... of South Texas on a path that takes the ...

Bennu’s minerals offered crucial clues to how the asteroid formed — and how its ... “I think it went somewhere down the path towards life.” But the same chemistry might have had more ...