The discovery supports the theory that asteroids seeded life on Earth.
The building blocks for organic matter have been discovered on the asteroid Bennu, as deatiled in a new study in the journal ...
This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the ...
The latest discovery, unveiled by the NASA on January 29, came as a bit of a surprise and posed many exciting questions such ...
A capsule carrying about a half cup of dust and rocks from an ancient asteroid named Bennu landed in the Utah desert in 2023. The samples were collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which sent a ...
Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...
Studies of asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft have revealed molecules that, on our planet, are key to life.
Samples of asteroid Bennu contain molecules that suggest the "conditions necessary for life" were widespread across the early ...
The pristine nature of the Bennu samples is crucial. Daniel Glavin of NASA noted, “The clues we’re finding are incredibly ...
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, ...
Samples from asteroid Bennu were first brought to Earth in 2023. Now, NASA has published its key findings revealing that the ...
Bennu’s parent asteroid, which formed around 4.5 billion years ago, seems to have been home to pockets of liquid water.