The discovery is a capstone achievement for NASA, which went to great lengths to secure and deliver asteroid samples from ...

Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...

Scientists from NASA and other institutions who have been analyzing the Bennu asteroid sample that returned to Earth last ...

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...

In samples NASA brought back from the asteroid Bennu, scientists have discovered of organic compounds, including key building ...

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Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...

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, ...

Floyd Collins got trapped in a Kentucky cave 100 years ago this week, an incident that led to the creation of Mammoth Cave National Park.

Bennu samples brought back by a University of Arizona-led space mission contain the key ingredients of life and signs of the ...

A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals ...

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