Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx brought back to Earth 121 grams of material from asteroid Bennu. This is the largest sample ever collected ...

Scientists have finally had a close look at the rubble collected by a NASA spacecraft from an asteroid. In it, they've found ...

Experts have unearthed the 'strongest evidence yet' for aliens on other planets after pieces of an asteroid were found to ...

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...

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

Bennu contains minerals and thousands of organic molecules, including the chemical components that make up DNA.

All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but ...