Three more papers on the samples brought back from asteroid Bennu reveal the place contains the building blocks of DNA and ...

The space agency has reportedly discovered life-giving essential sugars on the asteroid Bennu, a 500-meter-wide rock hurtling ...

By looking at maggots’ genes and metabolic changes, investigators can better predict time of death, the researchers said.

Asteroid Bennu was already a time capsule from the dawn of the Solar System, but the first detailed look at its returned ...

How life began on Earth is one of the biggest remaining questions in science. Now, NASA has taken a major step towards ...

Bennu is believed to have originated from the shards of a much larger world. Curiously, asteroid Ryugu, sampled by the ...

Researchers say this ancient “space gum,” once soft and flexible but now hardened, may have provided some of the chemical ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission brought back pristine pieces of the asteroid Bennu in 2023—and these tiny grains are turning out to ...

The finding supports the theory that asteroids could have delivered the necessary components for life to begin on Earth and ...

Bennu asteroid samples returned by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission reveal life's building blocks, including sugars like ribose and ...

NASA has found sugars essential for life on Earth in samples of the 4.6 billion-year-old Bennu asteroid. Scientists ...