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.

The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...

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It is located about 1,200 light-years (370 parsecs, or nearly 1.135Ñ1016 km) from Earth in the constellation of Lyra. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/ Universal Images Group via Getty Images ...

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A NASA satellite has spotted frozen "kidney beans" on Mars' sand dunes trapped in place until springtime. Photographing them ...

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”, ...