NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission successfully returned a generous chunk of the asteroid Bennu to Earth in 2023, and scientists have ...

Bennu’s parent asteroid, which formed around 4.5 billion years ago, seems to have been home to pockets of liquid water.

The minerals McCoy’s team identified paint a picture of one possible environment present on rocky celestial bodies 4.5 ...

All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...

In this video we will be making butyric acid by oxidizing 1-butanol (n-butanol) using KMno4. Chemicals: -6.2mL 1-butanol -14g ...

The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...

Scientists have discovered a unique sequence of minerals that formed from evaporated water in samples from Bennu.

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