The discovery is a capstone achievement for NASA, which went to great lengths to secure and deliver asteroid samples from asteroid Bennu in 2020.

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

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

Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...

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

Researchers have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in unprecedented samples collected from the ...

Scientists have detected amino acids and complex mineral compounds in NASA's asteroid Bennu rocks, some never seen before in ...

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

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

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A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals ...