In a nutshell Scientists found pristine salt minerals in asteroid Bennu samples that formed in a specific sequence as ancient ...

A team of scientists discovered that the near-Earth asteroid, known as Bennu, contains a wealth of minerals and organic molecules, including many that are building blocks of life. But what has the 4.5 ...

A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine analyzed artery-clogging plaques from over 250 patients and found that the presence of microplastics was associated with a significantly higher ...

Samples contain all five nucleobases of DNA and RNA, supporting theory that asteroids may have seeded Earth with life's ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to solar system dwarf planet Ceres by one or more space rocks from the ...

Analyses of rock and dust samples from the asteroid Bennu collected and brought to Earth by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft show ...

NASA researchers have discovered organic compounds and minerals essential for life in samples collected from the near-Earth ...

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, ...

Nasa said that the findings do not show evidence for life itself, but they do suggest the conditions necessary for the emergence of life were widespread across the early solar system.

The asteroid Bennu contains a lot of organic molecules, including many essential building blocks of life, according to a study published in the journal Nature on Wednesday. It suggests that the ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-metre-wide asteroid 320 ...