Like Ryugu, Bennu is a carbonaceous asteroid. These space rocks are rich in carbon molecules that form the organic compounds critical for life. Bennu, a pile of rocks loosely held together by gravity, ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which successfully returned a sample from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu in 2023, has provided significant new insights into both the asteroid’s composition and the ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar system. These findings can now provide information into the potential ...

They’re the building rocks of life. 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 ...

NASA finds key ingredients of life in asteroid samples 03:46. Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission from a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu.

NASA's asteroid samples from Bennu hold not only building blocks for life, including amino acids and all five DNA and RNA nucleobases, but also the salty remains of an ancient water world, ...

“We now know from Bennu that the raw ingredients of life were combining in really interesting and complex ways on Bennu’s parent body,” said Tim McCoy, the Smithsonian Institution’s ...

Tantalizing clues in 4-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu samples could reveal particular molecular formations that some scientists say support the workings of consciousness.

It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but the wait is proving to be worth it. A new study published January 29 ...

Two exciting new studies detail the life-supporting contents of a 4.3-ounce sample of the asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these ...

The building blocks of life have been found on an alien asteroid, scientists have said.. Samples taken by Nasa from the asteroid Bennu have not only the ingredients required to life but also show ...