Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...

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Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient ...

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

The latest discovery, unveiled by the NASA on January 29, came as a bit of a surprise and posed many exciting questions such as “Why didn't life form on Bennu?” ...

Studies of asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft have revealed molecules that, on our planet, are key to life.

Samples of asteroid Bennu contain molecules that suggest the "conditions necessary for life" were widespread across the early ...

Precise curation was necessary to discover that the Bennu asteroid sample contains building blocks of life on Earth.Long ...

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When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

"NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission already is rewriting the textbook on what we understand about the beginnings of our solar system," the statement reads ...