The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...

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A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals allowed the elemental ingredients of life to intermingle.

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

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

The discovery is a capstone achievement for NASA, which went to great lengths to secure and deliver asteroid samples from ...

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

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...

This photo of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 Polycam images collected on Dec. 2, 2024, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. NASA A ...

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

These minerals are also found on icy bodies in the outer solar system. Bright deposits on the dwarf planet Ceres, the largest ...