Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...
Bennu, it seems, was born of a salty planetoid rife with the ingredients for life. Bennu as it exists today is essentially a ...
Samples of asteroid Bennu contain molecules that suggest the "conditions necessary for life" were widespread across the early ...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission successfully returned samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing 14 of the 20 essential amino acids for life on Earth, along wit ...
Studies of asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft have revealed molecules that, on our planet, are key to life.
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 ...
Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...
Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried ...
The pristine nature of the Bennu samples is crucial. Daniel Glavin of NASA noted, “The clues we’re finding are incredibly ...
The latest discovery, unveiled by the NASA on January 29, came as a bit of a surprise and posed many exciting questions such ...
The building blocks for organic matter have been discovered on the asteroid Bennu, as deatiled in a new study in the journal ...