Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building ...

But the origins of life on our planet remains one of the great mysteries of science. Now, a mission by NASA to collect a piece of ancient asteroid and bring it back to Earth has revealed that the ...

They’re the building rocks of life. Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ...

Roughly 4.6 billion years ago, the Sun was born from the gas and dust of a nebula that underwent gravitational collapse. The ...

The samples were taken from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu by the NASA mission OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. attempt to ... The findings do not show evidence for life itself, but they do suggest ...

Now, researchers have to go back to the drawing board to understand how life might have been seeded on Earth. “I felt a little bit disappointed at first, like it invalidated 20 years of my research,” ...

Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...

Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were present in the early days of our solar system, as detailed in a series of papers ...