Samples contain all five nucleobases of DNA and RNA, supporting theory that asteroids may have seeded Earth with life's ...

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

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

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

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

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

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