When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ingredients essential to life, such as water, phosphate and ammonia. Together, ...
Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...
Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...
Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.
Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five ...
A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...
Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...
A local fossil hunter found animal vomit at a Danish geological site that is believed to be 66 million years old.
On December 25, a meteorite passed Minsk and fell near the town of Smalyavichy. The planetarium staff calculated the ...
Researchers detected a fast radio burst (FRB), powerful radio blasts from deep space that generate more energy in one quick ...