The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists' biggest questions about the formation of the early solar ...

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

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

The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists' biggest questions about the formation of the early solar ...

Another study in Nature Astronomy, led by Scott Sandford at NASA’s Ames Research Center and Zack Gainsforth of UC Berkeley, ...

We knew from prior analyses that a distant asteroid sampled in 2020 carried all but one of the molecules needed to kick-start ...

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

Researchers say the latest discovery is particularly significant because tryptophan has never before been detected in ...

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

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

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

Tryptophan, the essential amino acid behind the Thanksgiving myth that eating turkey can make you sleepy, has been found to ...