When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...

Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried ...

Our knowledge of life itself may be altered by a discovery made by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx project. The existence of organic molecules on the near-Earth object asteroid Bennu, which could be the key to the ...

Jason Dworkin, OSIRIS-REx project scientist, pointed out that the majority of the Bennu sample is still unexplored. With the ...

In other words, Bennu's samples provide further evidence that life's building blocks formed early in the solar system and ...

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

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino ...

The rocks and dust collected from asteroid Bennu hold amino acids, ammonia and other molecules essential to life on Earth, NASA reported Wednesday. The findings suggest the conditions necessary for ...

Bennu samples brought back by a University of Arizona-led space mission contain the key ingredients of life and signs of the ...

Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids ...

Samples from the asteroid Bennu, which landed in Utah's west desert in September 2023, could suggest rocks carrying an ...

Jason Dworkin, OSIRIS-REx project scientist, pointed out that the majority of the Bennu sample is still unexplored. With the same careful curation as the Apollo samples, scientists will be able to ...