Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building ...

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

Two exciting new studies detail the life-supporting contents of a 4.3-ounce sample of the asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-REx ...

Bennu’s parent asteroid, which formed around 4.5 billion years ago, seems to have been home to pockets of liquid water.

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

Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced ...

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...

“We have discovered that next step on a pathway to life ... In 2018, the OSIRIS-REx mission arrived at the near-Earth asteroid Bennu to collect pristine samples, untouched by alterations ...

“We have discovered that next step on a pathway to life ... project scientist for OSIRIS-REx. “What did Bennu not have that the Earth did have? This is a future area of study for ...

A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, ...

On Earth, it is used in cleaning ... in really interesting and complex ways on Bennu’s parent body,” McCoy said. “We have discovered that next step on a pathway to life.