Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...
In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-metre-wide asteroid 320 ...
In samples NASA brought back from the asteroid Bennu, scientists have discovered of organic compounds, including key building ...
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...
Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
In a triumph for NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission, new findings suggest that tiny bits of rock retrieved from the ...
The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...
Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...
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 ...
Samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the asteroid Bennu had organic molecules and minerals and possibly salty water and other life ingredients.