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

Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried ...

Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced ...

Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.

The discovery supports the theory that asteroids seeded life on Earth.

This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the ...

The asteroid Bennu contains all the materials needed for life. This backs up an old hypothesis that the building blocks of ...

Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...