NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission uncovered a cosmic connection between asteroid Bennu and Earth’s Searles Lake. Both contain minerals formed by evaporating salty water, hinting that Bennu’s parent body once ...

The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...

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

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

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ingredients were mingling with water almost right from the start.

When exposed to formaldehyde, which was also detected, ammonia can form amino acids, the building blocks of proteins.

Precise curation was necessary to discover that the Bennu asteroid sample contains building blocks of life on Earth.Long ...

In other words, Bennu's samples provide further evidence that life's building blocks formed early in the solar system and ...

For months, NASA was unable to open the sample container from the Osiris-Rex asteroid probe. It was found to contain over 51 ...

Scientists said they didn’t find evidence of life on Bennu, but they did find evidence of the building blocks of life.

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

NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned the samples from Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, in 2023. It's the biggest cosmic haul ...