NASA researchers have been studying rock and dust brought back to Earth from the asteroid, Bennu. Those particles revealed ...
A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.
All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...
Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five ...
An asteroid with the power to unleash an explosion one hundred times greater than the atomic bomb has triggered global space ...
NASA's Bennu samples reveal ancient water traces and life's building blocks, while China plans its own asteroid mission, ...
In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.