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

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

It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but ...

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

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

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

Rising mountain peaks and sharp rock formations cover the ocean floor, with corals, sponges, fish, and tons of sea creatures ...

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

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

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Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five years ago.

Mangrove forests along the Amazon coast release significant amounts of trace elements such as neodymium and hafnium. These ...