This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the ...

The discovery supports the theory that asteroids seeded life on Earth.

Scientists from NASA and other institutions who have been analyzing the Bennu asteroid sample that returned to Earth last ...

Studies of material harvested from asteroid Bennu by a NASA spacecraft that returned to Earth in 2023 has now shown that it contains minerals and thousands of organic molecules, including the chemical ...

Discoveries from an asteroid that contain the building blocks of life are making waves in the scientific community, and one ...

Pristine samples of the asteroid Bennu transported to Earth contain the "basic building blocks" for life, shedding new light ...

Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ingredients essential to life, such as water, phosphate and ammonia. Together, ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to solar system dwarf planet Ceres by one or more space rocks from the ...

This absorption and radiation of heat by the atmosphere—the natural greenhouse effect—is beneficial for life on Earth. If there were no greenhouse effect, the Earth’s average surface temperature would ...