Studies of asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft have revealed molecules that, on our planet, are key to life.
Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...
Samples of asteroid Bennu contain molecules that suggest the "conditions necessary for life" were widespread across the early ...
The latest discovery, unveiled by the NASA on January 29, came as a bit of a surprise and posed many exciting questions such ...
A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but ...
Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...
Scientists found 11 minerals in Bennu samples, including calcite, halite, and sylvite, that form when water with dissolved ...
The study of asteroid samples is a highly lucrative area of research and one of the best ways to determine how the Solar ...
Asteroids, small airless bodies within the inner solar system, are theorized to have contributed water and chemical building ...
Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building ...
Analyzing a sample from an asteroid named Bennu reveals the chemicals necessary to form DNA and RNA.