Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...

A mosaic image of asteroid Bennu, composed of 12 PolyCam images collected ... the possibility that life on Earth could have been seeded by chemicals in the cosmos billions of years ago. “Asteroids ...

TEMPLE, Texas — New samples from an asteroid could suggest that the conditions for life are not unique to ... for the first time on a sample from outside our planet, NASA said.

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft returned triumphantly to Earth in 2023 after collecting 4.3 ounces (121.6 grams) of precious grains of dust and rock from the asteroid ... our solar system existed before ...

Studies on asteroid Bennu's chemical building blocks deepens the mystery. Credit: Christoph Burgstedt / iStock / Getty Images ... "Is the universe predisposed to our kind of life, or is our ...

Three years earlier NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft had grabbed these samples from the surface of the asteroid Bennu ... Earth and our planet’s life—formed. Soon after the Bennu samples ...

An irreverent tour of the science and folklore behind the space debris that makes it to Earth and the people for whom these rare finds are almost a religion ...

For decades, scientists have searched the universe for signs of extraterrestrial life ... finding may alter our perception of existence itself and cause us to question whether or not we are alone.