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

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 ...

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

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

GREENBELT, Md. -- A team of international scientists says they've found sugars in meteorites that could be essential to the creation of life. The team, which included scientists from NASA and other ...

Jose Aponte, an astrochemist in the Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and co-author of ...

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

A meteorite that crashed in Australia 50 years ago has been confirmed to contain the oldest known solid material on Earth -- stardust from a time before our planet even was even formed. “These are the ...

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

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