Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...

NASA's asteroid samples contain organic compounds and minerals that may have seeded early Earth with life's building blocks.

We live in a golden age for space exploration. Scientists are gathering massive amounts of new information and scientific ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.

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

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...

The asteroid Bennu contains all the materials needed for life. This backs up an old hypothesis that the building blocks of ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that shed light on how life arose.

Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...