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Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission from a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu.

The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were all five of the basic building block for life — Guanine, Cytosine, Adenine, ...

Rock samples from the asteroid Bennu inspire ... Osiris-Rex stands for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security-Regolith Explorer. The mission yielded a total of ...

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

co-lead author of the Nature study and curator of meteorites at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. Bennu is a carbon-rich space rock known as a rubble pile asteroid. Scientists ...

co-lead author of the Nature study and curator of meteorites at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. Bennu is a carbon-rich space rock known as a rubble pile asteroid.

co-lead author of the Nature study and curator of meteorites at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. Bennu is a carbon-rich space rock known as a rubble pile asteroid.

Studies of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification ... curator of meteorites at the Smithsonian ...