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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New research announced by NASA on Tuesday details a bevy of exciting discoveries from asteroid dust that could provide clues ...

NASA has unveiled a series of new discoveries that make the possibility of alien life elsewhere in the universe more ...

Sugars essential for biology have been discovered in a gum-like substance in fragments from the Bennu space-rock.

Samples retrieved from asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission in September 2023 have yielded a surprising treasure trove ...