Scientists have discovered the essential building blocks to life on a sample from a distant asteroid. The sample, which the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected from the asteroid Bennu and returned to ...

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

Scientists have discovered the essential building blocks to life on a sample from a distant asteroid. The sample, which the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected from the asteroid Bennu and returned to ...

OSIRIS-REx launched in September 2016 and traveled 200 million miles (320 million kilometers) to reach Bennu. Once there, the spacecraft orbited the asteroid for nearly two years as flight ...