The sample analysis detected 14 out of the 20 amino acids used by life on Earth to create proteins, as well as all five nucleobases essential ...

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...

Nasa said that the findings do not show evidence for life itself, but they do suggest the conditions necessary for the emergence of life were widespread across the early solar system.

"The detection of these key building blocks of life in the Bennu samples supports the theory that asteroids and their fragments seeded the early Earth with the raw ingredients that led to the ...

Study indicates that Bennu’s parent asteroid developed or accumulated material from a reservoir in the outer solar system ...

Scientists found 11 minerals in Bennu samples, including calcite, halite, and sylvite, that form when water with dissolved ...

NASA scientists discovered a plethora of precursors to life on the asteroid Bennu, demonstrating the importance of Earthbound ...

In a groundbreaking revelation, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has uncovered organic compounds and complex carbon molecules in samples collected from asteroid Bennu, marking a major milestone in the search ...

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

Scientists from NASA and other institutions who have been analyzing the Bennu asteroid sample that returned to Earth last ...

In samples NASA brought back from the asteroid Bennu, scientists have discovered of organic compounds, including key building ...

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