There’s certainly nothing living on the asteroid Bennu, an airless, 1,614-ft. rubble pile orbiting the sun about 40.2 million ...
The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...
It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but ...
Bennu contains minerals and thousands of organic molecules, including the chemical components that make up DNA.
A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
The 60-metre object has ‘one of the highest probabilities of an impact from a significantly sized rock ever’, says astronomer ...
Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...
Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...
It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it ...