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

Earth, for context, is around 4.5 billion years old. That means life first emerged when the planet was still practically a newborn. "We did not expect LUCA to be so old, within just hundreds of ...

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

Rich in organic compounds such as amino acids, the meteorite is believed to have contributed to the building blocks of life on Earth. These molecules formed in space's extreme conditions before ...

Scientists have discovered a unique sequence of minerals that formed from evaporated water in samples from Bennu.

Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five ...

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...

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