The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...
Two science teams pored over samples from the B-type asteroid Bennu, finding chemicals linked to the beginnings of life and ...
Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.
Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried ...
Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...