Pristine samples of the asteroid Bennu transported to Earth contain the "basic building blocks" for life, shedding new light ...

The finding, reported in the science journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, is significant because the data reported by the ...

Water, one of the essential ingredients for life on Earth, did not appear on the planet until after the moon-forming event, a new study claims ...

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

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

and Bennu’s samples are pivotal in our understanding of what ingredients in our solar system existed before life started on Earth.” Bennu might not be the only extraterrestrial entity that ...

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

Bennu contains minerals and thousands of organic molecules, including the chemical components that make up DNA.

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

The Bennu discovery helps to illuminate how, early in the Solar System’s history, asteroids and other planetary building blocks were not just “lumps of stone and ice, but active ‘living’ objects”, ...

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

They started by estimating exoplanet surface conditions ... It also shows how resilient Earth life can be. "Overall, these results highlight both the resilience of E. coli in adapting to diverse ...