A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids ...
Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...
The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were ...
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...
The asteroid Bennu contains all the materials needed for life. This backs up an old hypothesis that the building blocks of ...
Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...
What would happen if a 500-meter asteroid hit Earth? Scientists at the IBS Center for Climate Physics modeled the aftermath, ...