Scientists studying samples from the Bennu asteroid located not too far from Earth continue to find clues as to how life ...

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How Did Life Happen? NASA Says It Found Tantalizing Clues on Asteroid Bennu ...

For the first time, tryptophan, which is an essential amino acid, has been identified in extraterrestrial material.

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

The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists' biggest questions about the formation of the early solar ...

“Our findings expand the evidence that prebiotic organic molecules can form within primitive accreting planetary bodies and ...

We knew from prior analyses that a distant asteroid sampled in 2020 carried all but one of the molecules needed to kick-start ...

Bennu asteroid samples returned by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission reveal life's building blocks, including sugars like ribose and ...

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