A sample collected from asteroid Bennu shows that our solar system was teeming with the potential for life.The Latest Tech ...

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

The building blocks for organic matter have been discovered on the asteroid Bennu, as deatiled in a new study in the journal ...

NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample ...

NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces) of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering ...

A capsule carrying about a half cup of dust and rocks from an ancient asteroid named Bennu landed in the Utah desert in 2023. The samples were collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which sent a ...

Samples of asteroid Bennu contain molecules that suggest the "conditions necessary for life" were widespread across the early ...

Samples from asteroid Bennu were first brought to Earth in 2023. Now, NASA has published its key findings revealing that the ...

The asteroid Bennu contains a lot of organic molecules, including many essential building blocks of life, according to a ...

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 ingredients essential to life, such as water, phosphate and ammonia. Together, ...