This photo of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 Polycam images collected on Dec. 2, 2024, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. NASA A ...
New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...
Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...
Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...
Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...
Analyzing a sample from an asteroid named Bennu reveals the chemicals necessary to form DNA and RNA.
The building blocks of life have been found on an alien asteroid, scientists have said. Samples taken by Nasa from the ...
Asteroids, small airless bodies within the inner solar system, are theorized to have contributed water and chemical building ...
A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...