Three more papers on the samples brought back from asteroid Bennu reveal the place contains the building blocks of DNA and ...

The space agency has reportedly discovered life-giving essential sugars on the asteroid Bennu, a 500-meter-wide rock hurtling ...

Asteroid Bennu, a dark rubble pile roughly the height of the Empire State Building, has turned out to be a chemical treasure ...

Space communications expert, Alexandra Doten, has explained what the discovery of a gum-like substance on an asteroid 63 ...

The Bennu asteroid, a space rock not too far from Earth that is rich in carbon, continues to be a trove of information for ...

Bennu is believed to have originated from the shards of a much larger world. Curiously, asteroid Ryugu, sampled by the ...

How life began on Earth is one of the biggest remaining questions in science. Now, NASA has taken a major step towards ...

Retired astronaut and current Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) celebrated NASA ’s “pretty exciting” announcement on Thursday after ...

Researchers say this ancient “space gum,” once soft and flexible but now hardened, may have provided some of the chemical ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission brought back pristine pieces of the asteroid Bennu in 2023—and these tiny grains are turning out to ...

The finding supports the theory that asteroids could have delivered the necessary components for life to begin on Earth and ...