Scientists found that asteroid Bennu contained a set of salty mineral deposits that formed in an exact sequence when a brine evaporated, leaving clues about the type of water that flowed billions of ...
NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.
The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...
Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source and Molecular Foundry provided powerful tools to study asteroid samples returned by NASA ...
Scientists have finally had a close look at the rubble collected by a spacecraft from the asteroid Bennu. Here's what they ...
Samples from the asteroid Bennu, which landed in Utah's west desert in September 2023, could suggest rocks carrying an ...
Samples from asteroid Bennu were first brought to Earth in 2023. Now, NASA has published its key findings revealing that the ...
These environments are like places that we think life could've started on early Earth.' ...
The two previous asteroid sample missions, by Japan, yielded considerably less material.Small amounts of Bennu's precious black grains — leftovers from the solar system's formation 4.5 billion ...