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

When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found ...

Scientists have uncovered an extraordinary finding on Asteroid Bennu, a space rock that passes near Earth roughly every six ...

Scientists discovered ribose — in addition to “all five nucleobases used to construct both DNA and RNA” — on asteroid Bennu, ...

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

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

Scientists have revealed that asteroid Bennu is teeming with essential life molecules like ribose and glucose, significantly ...

Elisha Sauers writes about space for Mashable, taking deep dives into NASA's moon and Mars missions, chatting up astronauts ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...

Magnesium-sodium phosphate found in NASA's OSIRIS-Rex asteroid sample suggests Bennu, seen above, could have originated from an ancient, primitive ocean world. Credit: NASA What the team found was ...

Scientists studying samples from the Bennu asteroid located not too far from Earth continue to find clues as to how life ...

Bits of rock and dust brought back from the distant asteroid Bennu contain some of the chemical building blocks of life, NASA announced Wednesday, a discovery that strengthens the theory that ...