Analyzing a sample from an asteroid named Bennu reveals the chemicals necessary to form DNA and RNA.

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

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

This photo of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 Polycam images collected on Dec. 2, 2024, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. NASA A ...

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When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...