The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were ...
Asteroids, small airless bodies within the inner solar system, are theorized to have contributed water and chemical building ...
Bennu’s highly unlikely impact with Earth—which could happen in 157 years—could cause a global winter and drought, modeling ...
Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.
An asteroid the size of One World Trade Center has a very small chance of crashing into Earth in the year 2182. But what ...
Bennu has a diameter of roughly 500 meters (1,640 feet) and has a 1 in 2,700 chance of hitting our planet in September 2182.
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino acids and nucleobases found in DNA and RNA. The presence of ammonia and ...
The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...
The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life ...
Rock and dust samples brought back from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu contain organic matter, including amino acids and all ...