A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried ...

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

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

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

The asteroid Bennu contains all the materials needed for life. This backs up an old hypothesis that the building blocks of ...

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

Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...

Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...

Enceladus, a 310-mile-wide moon of Saturn, has an icy shell encasing a salty ocean with many of the same minerals as Bennu. In October, NASA launched a probe to Jupiter’s moon Europa ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...