New insights from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission have unveiled intriguing clues about the potential origins of life on Earth. The mission, which launched in Septembe ...

Asteroid samples fetched by NASA ... a result of contamination from Earth." Bennu — a rubble pile just one-third of a mile (one-half of a kilometer) across — was originally part of a much larger ...

NASA has unveiled discoveries made from examining samples taken from the asteroid Bennu, which shed light on how widely the building blocks of life exist in the universe.

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

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 organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...

There’s certainly nothing living on the asteroid Bennu ... From the desert, the samples were transferred to NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston where they are stored and studied ...

Samples of matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building blocks of life to Earth, scientists report in a pair of new studies published ...

Scientists from NASA and other institutions who have been analyzing the Bennu asteroid sample that returned to Earth last September found molecules, including amino acids, which are essential ...

Scientists have discovered the essential building blocks to life on a sample from a distant asteroid ... study received slices of the Bennu sample, which they examined under a scanning electron ...

Samples returned from an asteroid contain a surprising abundance of the basic ingredients of life. They were discovered to be rich in carbon, nitrogen and ammonia, with over 30 kinds of amino acids ...

WASHINGTON – NASA has unveiled discoveries made from examining a sample taken from the asteroid Bennu ... the research team said they found evidence that Bennu was rich in salts and other ...