Asteroids, small airless bodies within the inner solar system, are theorized to have contributed water and chemical building ...

The building blocks for organic matter have been discovered on the asteroid Bennu, as deatiled in a new study in the journal ...

This mineral-rich asteroid might have carried the seeds of life. Planetary scientists have discovered organic matter ...

Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...

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

The building blocks of DNA have been found in samples returned to Earth from an asteroid, suggesting life rained down from ...

In other words, Bennu's samples provide further evidence that life's building blocks formed early in the solar system and ...

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

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

Scientists from NASA and other institutions who have been analyzing the Bennu asteroid sample that returned to Earth last ...

Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.

Rock and dust samples brought back from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu contain organic matter, including amino acids and all ...