Asteroid samples ... 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 asteroid that got clobbered by other ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission successfully returned a generous chunk of the asteroid Bennu to Earth in ... also concentrating smaller molecules where they are more likely to interact. Further study of the ...

Scientists have discovered the essential building blocks to life on a sample from a distant asteroid. The sample ... The researchers behind the first study received slices of the Bennu sample, which ...

Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five years ago.

So they’ve got beautiful bladed structures ... So we’ve got the ingredients, but again, no evidence of detecting actual life in the asteroid Bennu samples. DANTE LAURETTA: Yeah, and for me, that ...

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 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 ...