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

Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water world..

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ingredients essential to life, such as water, phosphate and ammonia. Together, ...

The building blocks of life have been found on an asteroid, scientists have said. Samples taken by Nasa from the ­asteroid Bennu have not only the ingredients required to life, but also show the ...