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 ...

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

Scientists found 11 minerals in Bennu samples, including calcite, halite, and sylvite, that form when water with dissolved ...

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 ...

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

A team of scientists discovered that the near-Earth asteroid, known as Bennu, contains a wealth of minerals and organic molecules, including many that are building blocks of life. But what has the 4.5 ...

The latest discovery, unveiled by the NASA on January 29, came as a bit of a surprise and posed many exciting questions such ...

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 ...