NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick shared this amazing time-lapse captured from the International Space Station. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NASA / Matthew Dominick | edited by Steve Spaleta Mu ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ingredients essential to life, such as water, phosphate and ammonia. Together, ...

Samples from the asteroid Bennu contain the building blocks of life as we know it. Scientists are enthusiastic.

Scientists found that asteroid Bennu contained a set of salty mineral deposits that formed in an exact sequence when a brine evaporated, leaving clues about the type of water that flowed billions of ...

This photo of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 Polycam images collected on Dec. 2, 2024, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. NASA A ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

Scientists have finally had a close look at the rubble collected by a spacecraft from the asteroid Bennu. Here's what they ...

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

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...

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