Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

NASA’s Bennu asteroid sample provides fresh insights into the potential for life beyond Earth, revealing key organic compounds and minerals.

Bennu contains minerals and thousands of organic molecules, including the chemical components that make up DNA.

(CNN) — Researchers have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary ... asteroids likely delivered the building blocks of life to our planet early in its history. The samples are also ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

CNN reports how new research from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center published to “Nature” has revealed that samples from the near-Earth asteroid, Bennu, contains organic compounds and minerals ...