Studying samples from the Bennu asteroid, researchers have found sugars essential for biology, stardust and ... something ...

Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life ...

Elisha Sauers writes about space for Mashable, taking deep dives into NASA's moon and Mars missions, chatting up astronauts ...

"I'm becoming much more optimistic that we may be able to find life beyond Earth, even in our own solar system." ...

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

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

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

The space agency has reportedly discovered life-giving essential sugars on the asteroid Bennu, a 500-meter-wide rock hurtling ...

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

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

Another study in Nature Astronomy, led by Scott Sandford at NASA’s Ames Research Center and Zack Gainsforth of UC Berkeley, ...