This mineral-rich asteroid might have carried the seeds of life. Planetary scientists have discovered organic matter ...
A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the ...
Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried ...
The latest discovery, unveiled by the NASA on January 29, came as a bit of a surprise and posed many exciting questions such ...
The building blocks for organic matter have been discovered on the asteroid Bennu, as deatiled in a new study in the journal ...
Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...
Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...
It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it ...
Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...
The pristine nature of the Bennu samples is crucial. Daniel Glavin of NASA noted, “The clues we’re finding are incredibly ...