A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

This mineral-rich asteroid might have carried the seeds of life. Planetary scientists have discovered organic matter ...

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...

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

Scientists have discovered that the asteroid Bennu contains the chemical ingredients of life, supporting the theory of their ...

Scientists recently discovered that San Bernardino County's Searles Lake contains minerals found in outer space.

The two previous asteroid sample missions, by Japan, yielded considerably less material. Small amounts of Bennu's precious ...

Scientists have discovered essential life-building compounds in dust from asteroid Bennu, supporting the theory that ...

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 ...

Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water world, scientists reported Wednesday. The findings provide the ...

Small amounts of Bennu’s precious black grains — leftovers from the solar system’s formation 4.5 billion years ago — were doled out to the two separate research teams whose studies ...