Although the chances of impact are slim, Bennu is still one of the most potentially hazardous known asteroids in our solar ...

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

New insights from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission have unveiled intriguing clues about the potential origins of life on Earth. The ...

Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

Scientists from NASA and other institutions who have been analyzing the Bennu asteroid sample that returned to Earth last ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid ...

"This, of course, increases the odds that life could have formed on other planets." There were several other reveals about ...

NASA stated that studies of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu that were taken by the OSIRIS ... "increasing the odds" that life may have formed on other planets or moons, said NASA.

Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...

"So this, of course, increases the odds that life could have formed on other planets," she said. A mission called OSIRIS-REx landed on an asteroid named Bennu in 2020, jammed its arm into the rock ...

“Our odds of finding life elsewhere are increasing ... In 2016, NASA launched OSIRIS-REx, a robotic probe, to Bennu in order to gather clues to the birth of the solar system.