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

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...

Scientists poring over a sample brought back from the asteroid Bennu have detected amino acids and complex mineral compounds, ...

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

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

Samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the asteroid Bennu had organic molecules and minerals and possibly salty water and other life ingredients.

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

The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...