NASA's findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...
Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five ...
Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced ...
The discovery supports the theory that asteroids seeded life on Earth.
All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...
NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.
Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...
Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...
This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the ...
Scientists from NASA and other institutions who have been analyzing the Bennu asteroid sample that returned to Earth last ...