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

Analyzing pristine fragments of the asteroid delivered to Earth by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023, a team led by ...

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

NASA’s Bennu samples have revealed life-linked sugars, a mysterious gum-like substance and even grains of ancient stardust.

NASA has found sugars essential for life on Earth in samples of the 4.6 billion-year-old Bennu asteroid. Scientists ...

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

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

As per the official reports, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission first collected samples from asteroid Bennu in 2020. Asteroids often ...

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

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NASA has discovered sugars vital for life on Earth, including glucose and ribose, in samples from the 4.6 billion-year-old Bennu asteroid. This marks the first time ribose, a crucial component of RNA, ...