Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...

REx brought back to Earth 121 grams of material from asteroid Bennu. This is the largest sample ever collected and brought ...

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

Harvard scientists explain how Mars had warm spells billions of years ago, allowing rivers and lakes to exist.

This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the ...

The scientists also found tiny crystals of rare salt minerals called halite and sylvite within Bennu's dust particles. These ...

The Bennu discovery helps to illuminate how, early in the Solar System’s history ... a planetary scientist at the Earth-Life Science Institute in Tokyo who wrote a News & Views article ...

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

The return capsule containing a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is ...